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re: Dr Jared Diamond predicts there's 50-50 chance civilization crumbles in the next 25 years

Posted on 9/25/26 at 6:47 pm to
Posted by RCDfan1950
United States
Member since Feb 2007
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Posted on 9/25/26 at 6:47 pm to
Did the factor in AI? If not, his extrapolations are unrealistic. Albeit maybe in regard to the speed of predicted collapse, or that of extraordinary powers which mitigate collapse.

IMO, the tipping of the survivability scales (AI nws) will be human nature as such relates to Religion (God/Self Aware Universal Energy Reservoir as Creator vs a Nature-based Perceptive Paradigm via Randomness.

And Ideology, I.e., Darwinian merit/survival and prosperity of the 'fittest' vs Marxist/Egalitarian 'morality' in regard to the governance of human interaction.

The struggle to determine which of the two above Principles hold complex systematic 'Government' power can cut that 25 in half, given the rate of dysfunction and the extraordinary influence of AI as well. Trans-Humans may not need to eat. Likely whatever is piloting those UFOs don't either, as the ones that have been seen back in '96 didn't have a mouth.

There are a lot of variables in these predictions. But one thing is for sure...such being BIG CHANGES are in the cards. For good or bad.
Posted by davyjones
NELA
Member since Feb 2019
37748 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 6:49 pm to
I think where some folks might perhaps go wrong sometimes is allowing themselves to become “triggered” enough by something that they shouldn’t have let do so, but once that threshold has been crossed then they have to go over the top even more so than the original “triggering” party. I guess you could think of it as throwing good money after bad.

Now this may not be the case across the board, and of course it isn’t (it’s quite possibly not the case at all, ever), but it sure seems to be in many cases, to this reader anyway.
Posted by ShoeBang
Member since May 2012
22390 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 7:15 pm to
It will

Or it won’t


Such insight
Posted by davyjones
NELA
Member since Feb 2019
37748 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 7:18 pm to
Tell you what’s even scarier - it either will or it won’t in the next year. Stop and think about that. Or don’t. You either will or you won’t. Lol
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
Member since Jun 2004
198678 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 7:23 pm to
If that's a response to my saying that people have misread my posts. Okay, understand you.

But the moment I came in and said paxton was gonna lose, people were calling me a liberal which doesn't really offend me,i enjoy rustling jimmies

I like having fun with it, but there is no rational discourse on this board, this is not the Oxford debate society.

This is where a bunch of people yell political things at each other
And when someone will have a rational dialogue with me, I respond in kind

Posted by supadave3
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2005
32514 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 7:31 pm to
Nm
This post was edited on 9/25/26 at 7:32 pm
Posted by WWII Collector
Member since Oct 2018
9393 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 7:40 pm to
I am afriad that he might be correct...

First of all. we zoomed to 7 Billion people.. if they all had 2 babies and they had two babies... That is ??(7x2=14x2=28x2=56

56 Billion people in 40 years.

The old road I grew up on had 3 houses on it in 1970.. It has about 25 today.

How long did it take for us to wipe out the Buffulo???... There were millions and we did it in how many years...

Also... Just 70 years ago.. Everybody still had cows, chickens, and gardens... There was not a taco bell in sight... Now today people would not know how to grow a pea, much less can one...

And if we sling a few Nuclear missles at each other for a few months???

Yes... It's a very good possability... If I in Vegas, I'd lay $100 on us being wiped out in 50 years.

Posted by lsuconnman
Baton rouge
Member since Feb 2007
5717 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 7:51 pm to
Honestly, the western world will be fine. If we just stop exporting food. Pakistani, India, and Africa account for 1/3 of the earth’s population we can recapture and later resettle the land and start over.
Posted by WWII Collector
Member since Oct 2018
9393 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 8:54 pm to
quote:

Honestly, the western world will be fine. If we just stop exporting food. Pakistani, India, and Africa account for 1/3 of the earth’s population we can recapture and later resettle the land and start over.


It's that start over part that concerns me...
Posted by RohanGonzales
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Member since Apr 2024
13238 posts
Posted on 9/26/26 at 3:42 am to
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i enjoy rustling jimmies



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