You can come up with the details on the kind of collapse.
A confederation of autonomous zones run horizontally under anarchist principles, a la Rojava, the Makhnovshchina, Catalonia, etc etc. Presumably for many types of collapse, there’d be a gradual period where the government just cuts off services to increasingly populated areas and abandons them. Autonomous zones like these could spring up to fill the void, and eventually be better than what they’re replacing.
Best case scenario would be it results in less greenhouse gasses being released and some semblence of general ecological balance able to return.
Though, I’d imagine there will be unattended nuclear reactors that melt down and poison regions or w/e. So I’ll qualify that first bit by “…and also I live upwind/upriver of any nuclear catastrophe.”
Humans go extinct; orangutans evolve to become the chillest high intelligence in the history of the universe.
As a programmer, I’m very aware that my best hope is to heavily arm myself and spend my time defending someone who knows something about computer networking while they work to rebuild.
Yo, what you need Cisco, FortiNet, Aruba, Ubiquity, Extreme Networks?
Wait, off topic, does posting a anti commercial license to a comment made on someone else’s network and platform and storage actually provide you durable rights related to the usage of your comment content?
Could that ever be defended if the network maintainers don’t themselves support and agree to that?
Probably not lol. Seems to me more along the lines of those folks copy/pasting the whole “I hereby claim that nothing on my Facebook can be used without my permission” on Facebook.
I thought the same.
They’re mislabeling the license too. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 has nothing to do with “anti-commercial-AI.” It provides some terms for using content and, in theory if OP is willing to take someone to court, should provide some basis if the license is being abused. Until there’s actual precedence, though, it’s debatable whether or not sucking up CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 content is a breach of the license. For it to actually matter, someone needs to demonstrably prove 1) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 content was sucked up by AI, 2) it was their content and it was licensed at the time, 3) the terms of the license were violated, and 4) other legal shit that will pop up during the course of the litigation. “Someone” has to be someone with deep fucking pockets willing to go the distance in many international jurisdictions.
Idk, but does it matter? it’s just a link.
Well, it propagates an illusion of legal mandate which is unrealistic, bordering on misinformation.
Best case? The collapse sets society back far enough that technology backtracks too.
Imagine a local dictator but with 2020’s technology and reach; one stupid, little tyrant could wipe out most of life on earth. If weapons, communications, and transportation also backtrack, any individual dictator’s influence will be limited by reach.
Competing small communities and competing small tyrants give the potential opportunity for escaping elsewhere that isn’t “as bad”.
Or if looking at it from POV other than human supremacy, humans all die out and another species can take a crack at it in a few hundred million years.
I feel like the most likely sort of collapse would be a Roman empire style collapse where it takes centuries to reach completion and we see a period of increased governmental instability/local authoritarianism for a little bit. The most likely cause would be some sort of climate disaster. It probably wouldn’t happen everywhere either, the Byzantine empire lasted well into the middle ages, after all, going on the Rome metaphor. The best strategy would be to move somewhere less effected by the collapse with a hospitable enough climate to support local food production, and enough resources to ensure long-term maintenance of infrastructure. The Great Lakes area of the US/Canada fits this pretty well
Ok, but what is your best case scenario of what you think comes after a collapse?
Best case? People cooperate with each other to share labor/resources in a way that eventually gives rise to a more democratic, non-capitalist economy. Basically star trek without the (probably) impossible technology or the aliens.
Basically high tech elves. Having passed through a self imposed disaster, humanity faces it’s destructive greed and overcomes it, achieving a profound integration with nature, while retaining the technical knowledge of the past. The new culture is stable and long lasting, and heals the blighted areas of the planet. The ecosystem becomes more resilient and more abundant than ever before.
Diaspora by Greg Egan has high tech elf humans. It was cool.
Best for humans, or best overall?
Your choice.
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Like me personally or like societally?
I was thinking societally.
Hold your empty disemboweled gas tanks up high
Turn them into a bong or a still
Rootin’ through the gas stations
Tilling up our backyards
That’s my rosy picture of the End Times, my friend- from “Floodwaters” by Defiance, Ohio, though the song doesn’t stay rosy for long
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Society is collapsing as we speak and my best case scenario is this one because I do whatever i can to create a soft landing spot for me and my local community.
An asteroid. A big’un.
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