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If society collapsed what is your best case scenario for what comes after? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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You can come up with the details on the kind of collapse.

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Most likely outcome die because no clean water, I guess. I think the best outcome would be something like William Gibson describes as "the jackpot" in the Peripheral books. AI becoming helpful right in the moment the population collapses so there are fewer people and the world can recover but we can live in technological comfort.