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Written by Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on 2025-01-15 at 21:58

"The records clearly state that AI ended their civilization."

"But that's ridiculous, the technology was nowhere near AI. They only had the most basic quantum computers, they were centuries away from that kind of capability."

"Yes - a student of mine suggests they simply thought they had developed AI."

"So? That can't have destroyed a civilization?"

"The thesis is that it can, if people actually believed it."

"No civilization would be that daft."

[#]MicroSF

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Written by Vex on 2025-01-16 at 10:24

@_thegeoff this made me think: do you reckon the historical narratives of the collapse of empires frames how we, as humanity will see the collapse civilisation as an inevitability? And would emphasising the evolution or transition of civilisations make us subconciously more optimistic?

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