Lumifer comments on Blind Spot: Malthusian Crunch - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 October 2013 02:59:06AM 0 points [-]

Nevertheless, every complex civilization previous to ours eventually failed and collapsed.

Humanity is still here and looks pretty complex to me :-) Individual civilizations come and go, sure, but that's not the question we're discussing. If e.g. the Western civilization collapses, there will be others ready and willing to take its place.

Comment author: bokov 21 October 2013 09:53:42PM 0 points [-]

Actually, for the first time in history, we might have achieved a global civilization, as well as a global single point of failure.