When you understand how conditioning and fictional identity has warped humans into monsters, cripples or both, it's an endless fall into an abyss. Breathtaking. Insanity at the race level, and I mean race as in "homo sapiens".
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perhaps 500k years. longer than usual after a mass extinction. but, yes, Earth will recovery from the Homo Sapiens virus.
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got 500 million years till the earth is too close to the sun for life, so we got a while yet, iirc
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And by survive, I mean continue to advance knowledge and technology. Even setting it back 10 years is hard to imagine, short of unimaginable nuclear war.
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you vastly underestimate how much can be lost, imo. Vastly.
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It's more about how big the world is. Civilisations have always fallen, but often elsewhere in the world, another was continuing. Yet it was never from such a position as this, where knowledge is so defusely spread.
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And very little is actually known to individuals. We are hyper specialized, the knowledge is harder to learn than it looks, and we have an extraordinarily complicated chain of creation.
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It's remarkable how little people know. Friend of mine was a true polymath. I remember him once musing on writing (anon) a book on how to kitchen brew the 20 most important medicines. Almost no one else could write that book.
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So long as it isn't instant thermonuclear war, We will have some warning and the capacity to do *something*. There will be a period where people wake up to the existential risk and start learning, archiving, sustainably storing knowledge.
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