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We are ever-faster approaching the Anti Singularity, the moment when everything "tech" implodes and progress screeches to a halt.

• narrator 3mo ago
  What if this is "The Great Filter?" [Ominous music plays in the background]
  • natebc 3mo ago
    We've got a few candidates for that on the go and this is for sure one of them.
    • aaaronic 3mo ago
      It's not like they're mutually exclusive. In fact, multiple candidates seem to be quite sympathetic in their feedback loops.
  • RetroTechie 3mo ago
    That would be when we've automated stuff to the point where [machinery breaking down] causes a large majority of humans to die from starvation. And then go on to repeat that mistake by re-building without using the lessons from previous catastrophe(s). Sadly that last part sounds fairly common for humans... 8-| So yeah. Maybe. Possible.
    • narrator 3mo ago
      We're already there since without the Haber–Bosch process billions would starve.
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