Low value from technology and high risk might imply that a return to pre-industrial agrarian life maximizes human value.
A return to pre-industrial agrarian life is impossible. What would prevent people from just reinventing the machines? Perhaps someone could gather together a movement — it could be called the Great Leap Backward — to destroy all the libraries, all the computers, all the machines, and all the educated people who might try to rebuild anything. Pre-industrial population was around 800 million (taking the figures for 1750 AD), so they would also have to decide which 10% of the population get to survive into this brave new world.
A return to pre-industrial agrarian life is impossible. What would prevent people from just reinventing the machines? Perhaps someone could gather together a movement — it could be called the Great Leap Backward — to destroy all the libraries, all the computers, all the machines, and all the educated people who might try to rebuild anything. Pre-industrial population was around 800 million (taking the figures for 1750 AD), so they would also have to decide which 10% of the population get to survive into this brave new world.
I would much rather not exist than live in any type of primitive world at all.