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Point being, doomsday prepping for the singularity on a national scale with a nuclear deterrent to hold off invasion and autarky to prevent race-to-the-bottom economic competition with robot and transhuman workers who're objectively more capable than baseline human ones is completely different...

I feel obligated to crosspost DocBen's True Russianiam from alternatehistory forum.

John Michael Greer: Author of a substack and a few books about how technological civilization is doomed because of peak resources and not being able to manage expensive long-term projects without short-term payoffs like building alternate technologies. Well-researched, disturbingly plausible and...

Carrington events are just another case of an Outside Context Problem which would destroy our whole civilization and which we've theoretically got the technology to bypass, but since it'd be very expensive to build the bypassing infrastructure and we wouldn't necessarily need it at any point...

I freely admit I don't understand John Michael Greer/William S. Lind/Rod Dreher variety of neo-amish retroculture. If I'm getting this right, the arguments being made are: Industrial civilization, including both the promise of modern quality of life and the cyberpunk dystopian nightmare the...

To be completely fair, that might be their plan. In the event of madmaxworld, wait for a warlord to conquer them and essentially become feudal peasants, trading a percentage of their harvest for "protection" from "taxation" by rival warlords or getting pillaged down to their seedstocks by hordes...