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Deep learning @google. Creator of Keras. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'. Opinions are my own.

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    1. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Jan 15

      2020 was definitely a step backwards. If you're wondering how great civilizations can end up collapsing: they just have many 2020s in a row over several decades, with exponentially compounding cascade effects at each new development.

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    2. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Jan 15

      Factors of decline are multiplicative. E.g. cultural & educational deterioration leads to an incompetent government. An incompetent government makes a pandemic much worse. A bad pandemic accelerates institutional decline

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    3. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Jan 16

      For the record, I don't think civilization will collapse in the near future (within the next 400 years). Not even as a consequence of catastrophic climate change over the next two centuries. But we will go through some pretty rough patches

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      François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Jan 16

      Our particular civilization, as a system, features significant structural risk factors that could enable collapse, but it also has important collapse-preventing characteristics. I think the latter factors will win out

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        2. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Jan 16

          Hardships and setbacks can be catalysts of progress -- progress doesn't happen without challenges. Decline happens when we lose the ability to respond to challenges. Collapse happens when decline accelerates past a point of no return

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        3. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Jan 16

          I think the coming hardships are more likely to become catalysts of progress than triggers of collapse

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        1. stonebig..‏ @stonebigdotdot Jan 16
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          interesting stress test january 20th

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        1. jonspelledwithoutanh‏ @jonwithno_h Jan 16
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          Decentralization first and foremost.

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        1. Jean-Luc Delatre‏ @kevembuangga Jan 16
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          No, civilization as a whole will endure. But *specific* societies WILL collapse:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsT9V3WQiNA …

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        1. Vincent Weisser‏ @vincentweisser Jan 16
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          Existential risks are underrated and underfunded, should be funded with tend of billions to reduce odds further!

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        1. Martí‏ @martizc Jan 16
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          Which are these collapse-preventing characteristics?

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        1. Jan Mikicki‏ @Graboonie Jan 16
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          Have you read The Three Body Problem (sci-fi novel)?

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