Was thinking the other day: what if one was granted immortality...and every other human disappeared? What level of technology is sustainable for one person, working 60 hrs/week? 21st c. for a few decades. 1920 for a few centuries. >>>
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And I'm not sure that one person, sans division of labor, could do it. I bet you wear through a complete set of clothes every year, so you've got to harvest, spin, and weave your own flax (or wool). Etc.
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Garden enough for you AND YOUR LIVESTOCK, fence repair, sheering, spinning, weaving, butchery, firewood, forge new plows and knives and sheers, loom repair, splitting shingles, making soap, ... https://twitter.com/Eidotheia/status/1178285763932360706?s=19 …
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Don't think so. I think you lose electricity in < 500 years, bc you lose diesel engines. Technological "infrastructure pyramid" is far too tall.https://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1178286021785640962?s=19 …
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Very close to that scenario, yes. But I'm thinking starvation is real. https://twitter.com/JeanDeny313/status/1178285739127296000?s=19 …
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Also, just remembered that Vernor Vinge touched on this in Marooned in Realtime Ha ha ha!
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9/ Yep, read one or two. Similar, but I'm examining "what if just ONE person?"https://twitter.com/Crowesq/status/1178287479847305221?s=19 …
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Seems like the answer is to focus hard on robotics early on.
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I don't know that technology is far enough along for that yet. Give it 50 or 100 years, maybe, and it gets easier.
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The trick there is to spend a lot of your early time prepping spare engines for long-term storage. Of course, that just pushes back the inevitable.
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