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There is a huge difference between how the world works today and how it worked in the medieval era though. We are much more interconnected and co-dependent as evidenced by COVID-19. Maybe there are uncontacted people that could survive a major human pandemic? We also have worse weapons, can the people that survive a pandemic that kills 2/3 of humanity, like the plague, keep it together? There is already speculation that people like Putin were twisted further by the isolation of COVID-19.

WRT ecological collapse, aren't we experiencing the front end of a mass extinction in the oceans? Can humans survive such an event or will it be a domino effect up the food chain?

I don't usually like ruminating on this stuff but it's worth considering our future without AI if we are going to consider what it may be like with it.