[kadoban]

> If you read the post, the scenario clearly states “no further silicon designs ever get manufactured”. It’s a thought experiment, nothing more.

This kind of just breaks the thought experiment, because without the "why?" of this being vaguely answered, it makes no sense. How do you game out a thought experiment that starts with an assumption that humanity just randomly stops being humanity in this one particular way? What other weird assumptions are we meant to make?

[esseph]

If you don't like the rules of the game, you don't have to play it.

[bee_rider]

But, this is as if people said “well, I can’t carry the soccer ball in my hands, so I’ll carry it with my elbows instead.”

[esseph]

It's not that complicated, you just literally choose to not participate in the thought experiment and you move on with your life.