I’ve seen this Civ Reboot/recovery stuff proposed a few times, and it’s almost always engineers proposing it :p
Civ reboot is not an engineering problem. It is not a videogame tech-tree.
Knowledge without understanding is at best useless, at worst dangerous. Technology is one big infohazard that our current civilization is often incapable of utilising responsibly and/or without damaging consequences. The prime directive exists for a reason.
If you want to provide knowledge and resources that are valuable to survivors attempting to ‘reboot’ civilization—provide them with knowledge about healthcare, about agriculture, about education. These will be the only questions that matter for generations: Can you have kids, can you feed them, can you educate them, can you keep everyone alive.
...I could go on for quite some time but I want to keep this short. So I’ll just reiterate the massive importance of education, the similarly massive challenges involved and then gesture meaningfully toward the link between education > psychology, and the whole other bag of infohazards therein.
Another reply alluded to this also but I want to really really emphasize it: if you want to reboot civilization, you better have really good reasons for believing it’s a civilization you’d approve of.
There be a lot of skulls on this here path. Like, a lot. Like… we’re hip deep in skulls for as far as the eye can see—the history of civilization is largely, albeit not entirely, dystopian.
If your grand plan for saving the human race is A.) more likely to result in a 2nd Nazi Germany (sorry for the cliche) than it is any kind of society we’d want to live in and B.) very unlikely to succeed in the first place, how exactly does it fit under the umbrella of Effective Altruism? It seems to be neither.
I’ve seen this Civ Reboot/recovery stuff proposed a few times, and it’s almost always engineers proposing it :p
Civ reboot is not an engineering problem. It is not a videogame tech-tree.
Knowledge without understanding is at best useless, at worst dangerous. Technology is one big infohazard that our current civilization is often incapable of utilising responsibly and/or without damaging consequences. The prime directive exists for a reason.
If you want to provide knowledge and resources that are valuable to survivors attempting to ‘reboot’ civilization—provide them with knowledge about healthcare, about agriculture, about education. These will be the only questions that matter for generations: Can you have kids, can you feed them, can you educate them, can you keep everyone alive.
...I could go on for quite some time but I want to keep this short. So I’ll just reiterate the massive importance of education, the similarly massive challenges involved and then gesture meaningfully toward the link between education > psychology, and the whole other bag of infohazards therein.
Another reply alluded to this also but I want to really really emphasize it: if you want to reboot civilization, you better have really good reasons for believing it’s a civilization you’d approve of.
There be a lot of skulls on this here path. Like, a lot. Like… we’re hip deep in skulls for as far as the eye can see—the history of civilization is largely, albeit not entirely, dystopian.
If your grand plan for saving the human race is A.) more likely to result in a 2nd Nazi Germany (sorry for the cliche) than it is any kind of society we’d want to live in and B.) very unlikely to succeed in the first place, how exactly does it fit under the umbrella of Effective Altruism? It seems to be neither.