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The point isn't that humans couldn't survive without computers, but that any even that managed to stop humans globally from manufacturing computers would be such a massively disruptive event in much more important areas than computing.


> massively disruptive event

That’s not the same as what I was replying to: “a global extinction-level event”

The difference is pretty substantial.




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