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Civ­i­liza­tional Collapse

TagLast edit: 6 Mar 2022 16:51 UTC by A_donor

Civilizational Collapse is the process by which a large complex social organization breaks down and becomes incapable of performing its usual functions. It has occurred many times in history in specific regions, and some hypothesize that if it happened now it would dramatically affect almost all humans due to the interconnected nature of the global economy. Possible causes include severe natural or bioengineered pandemics, nuclear war and the following nuclear winter, or fragility and cascading systems failure.

Progress, Stag­na­tion, & Collapse

abramdemski22 Jul 2021 16:51 UTC
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Why I think there’s a one-in-six chance of an im­mi­nent global nu­clear war

Max Tegmark8 Oct 2022 6:26 UTC
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169 comments4 min readLW link

When should you re­lo­cate to miti­gate the risk of dy­ing in a nu­clear war?

Adam Zerner4 Mar 2022 10:34 UTC
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27 comments14 min readLW link

Over­pop­u­la­tion FAQs

Zero Contradictions10 Aug 2024 4:21 UTC
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(zerocontradictions.net)

De­mog­ra­phy and Destiny

Zero Contradictions21 Jul 2024 20:34 UTC
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(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Pre­serv­ing our her­i­tage: Build­ing a move­ment and a knowl­edge ark for cur­rent and fu­ture generations

rnk829 Nov 2023 19:20 UTC
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Pre­serv­ing and con­tin­u­ing al­ign­ment re­search through a se­vere global catastrophe

A_donor6 Mar 2022 18:43 UTC
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[Link] The Col­lapse of Com­plex So­cieties

[deleted]31 Dec 2012 12:11 UTC
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[Question] Blog ded­i­cated to re­build­ing tech­nol­ogy from civ col­lapse?

Casey B.4 Feb 2022 23:28 UTC
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Im­prov­ing long-run civil­i­sa­tional robustness

RyanCarey10 May 2016 11:15 UTC
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Don’t Con­di­tion on no Catastrophes

Scott Garrabrant21 Feb 2018 21:50 UTC
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7 comments2 min readLW link

Re­cov­ery Man­ual for Civilization

RyanCarey31 Oct 2014 9:36 UTC
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[Question] What sorts of prepa­ra­tions ought I do in case of fur­ther es­ca­la­tion in Ukraine?

tailcalled1 Oct 2022 16:44 UTC
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A Few Ter­rify­ing Facts About The Russo-Ukrainian War

Pee Doom30 Sep 2022 21:34 UTC
70 points
105 comments3 min readLW link

Ac­tu­ally, All Nu­clear Famine Papers are Bunk

Lao Mein12 Oct 2022 5:58 UTC
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37 comments2 min readLW link1 review

AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 1/​6: His­tor­i­cal Priors

PashaKamyshev29 Oct 2022 21:59 UTC
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AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 2/​6: Be­hav­ioral Modification

PashaKamyshev30 Oct 2022 16:57 UTC
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0 comments10 min readLW link

AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 3/​6: Anti-econ­omy and Sig­nal Pollution

PashaKamyshev31 Oct 2022 17:03 UTC
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AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 4/​6: Bioweapons and Philos­o­phy of Modification

PashaKamyshev1 Nov 2022 20:50 UTC
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AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 5/​6: Re­la­tion­ship be­tween C-risk and X-risk

PashaKamyshev3 Nov 2022 2:19 UTC
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0 comments7 min readLW link

A Gen­tle In­tro­duc­tion to Risk Frame­works Beyond Forecasting

pendingsurvival11 Apr 2024 18:03 UTC
73 points
10 comments27 min readLW link

AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 6/​6: What can be done

PashaKamyshev3 Nov 2022 19:48 UTC
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4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Who looked into ex­treme nu­clear melt­downs?

Remmelt1 Sep 2024 21:38 UTC
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AI take­off and nu­clear war

owencb11 Jun 2024 19:36 UTC
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6 comments11 min readLW link
(strangecities.substack.com)
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