[NunoSempere]

> Any event or series of events that removes mankind's ability to produce modern computers is a global extinction-level event and rather than dicking around with computers one should really be considering suicide to avoid a slow, painful, inevitable death in a hostile world surrounded by misery.

To give some color, here: https://blog.sentinel-team.org/p/how-likely-are-various-prec... is a list of a few things that could kill over 1M people in one year. Maybe your statement is not the case for solar storms in particular.

[alpaca128]

The probability estimation of "simulation shutdown" seems a bit high. It's just as speculative as alien invasions or vacuum decay.

[roxolotl]

We just experienced 10x that 5 years ago. It did damage supply chains but it didn’t result in collapse.

[matltc]

Speculative rationalist dreck. Entertaining nonetheless