Hacker News with Generative AI: Collapse

The End of Children (newyorker.com)
Societies do collapse, sometimes suddenly. Nevertheless, prophets of doom might keep in mind that their darkest predictions have been, on the whole, a little premature.
Society, Predictions, Collapse
22 points by mefengl 14 days ago | 6 comments
Dusk OS: a 32-bit Forth and big brother to Collapse OS (duskos.org)
Dusk OS is a 32-bit Forth and big brother to Collapse OS. Its primary purpose is to be maximally useful during the first stage of civilizational collapse, that is, when we can't produce modern computers anymore but that there's still many modern computers around.
Operating Systems, Forth, Collapse, Technology
4 points by tosh 26 days ago | 1 comments
States have a shelf life of about 200 years (wordpress.com)
I gave a talk on collapse earlier this autumn to the community of futurists that is co-ordinated by DEFRA, the British government’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It was based on an article I wrote earlier this year, and discussed here in March. The presentation slides are linked at the end of this post.
Politics, History, Collapse, Forecasting
15 points by surprisetalk 130 days ago | 0 comments
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (nautil.us)
Future, Society, Collapse, Humanity, Adaptation
28 points by dnetesn 328 days ago | 66 comments
The Collapse Is Coming? Will Humanity Adapt? (mitpress.mit.edu)
Humanity, Future, Adaptation, Collapse
10 points by jseliger 347 days ago | 27 comments