The World Ended Quietly. Here Are the Receipts.(repost)

Posted by Signal-Income9001@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 51 comments

We keep waiting for the siren.

Some signal that tells us it's time to take it seriously. A flash on the horizon. A news anchor with a face that says this one is different.

It hasn't come. So most people assume we're fine.

I spent time putting the actual cited numbers next to each other. Not individually, where each one is easy to dismiss. Together.

40% chance of great power war by 2035 (Atlantic Council, 350+ global strategists, 2024). 14% mean probability of AI catastrophe from the researchers who actually build it (AI Impacts, 2,778 researchers, 2023). 27% chance of a pandemic worse than COVID within 10 years (Metabiota, Airfinity). 2.6C of warming locked in under current implemented policy (Climate Action Tracker/IPCC). 40% global recession probability right now (JPMorgan, IMF, 2025).

Probability that none of these occur by 2075: roughly 5%.

That's not Russian roulette. That's a revolver with five chambers loaded and one empty.

The piece also gets personal in a way I think this community will appreciate. Not statistics at arm's length. Actually personal.

Full medium article: https://medium.com/@vantenian/the-world-ended-quietly-here-are-the-receipts-bf3f9ea6ccc6?postPublishedType=repub
Repost: had to repost because of a link issue that got it automod removed

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Intelligent-Ring5113@reddit

The sad and terrifying truth is that the comment section in this sub proves your point. While everyone is making jokes thinking this is another bs post, the boiling pot of water we’re sitting is incrementally getting hotter and hotter and when it’s finally realized we’re in a boiling pot of water it will be too late to jump out. Because they feel helpless and powerless to do anything of real measure their mindset turns to “it’ll be fine.” “Nothing ever happens”. It’ll be fine till it does.

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vinegar@reddit

Welcome to r/collapse, seems like this is your first visit? Notice that it’s not called r/itllbefine. The comments are jokes because that’s what the post deserves.

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No_Branch_5083@reddit

Mods, can we start properly culling the AI shit in this sub?

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lavapig_love@reddit

We're working it, and human-based reports like yours help us do the job.

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--Ano--@reddit

That's not XY, that's AI nonsense.

My AI calculated a 95% probability for an AI takeover. In the end it is just a sycophantic LLM that will tell you what you want to hear and even makes mistakes doing that.

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poop-machines@reddit

Yup, you just know it's ai when you see phrases like that

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Glittering_Film_6833@reddit

AI can't even use a semicolon

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poop-machines@reddit

They've actually started recently! They're training them to add them.

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Captain_Pink_Pants@reddit

See? AI is just like human intelligence!

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Glittering_Film_6833@reddit

It's deliberately illiterate!

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Jambonier@reddit

That’s not a rebuttal. That’s wisdom.

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TheEPGFiles@reddit

My AI thought James Earl Jones was alive. Maybe we shouldn't trust AI is what I'm saying.

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Realfinney@reddit

Let's see what my phone's predictive text thinks after I type "Will ai take over?":

'I do agree the stock market is more likely to outperform residential and friends with them for not eating more while at a restaurant in the morning Dad's key safe haven refugee in a time that is already chaotic and which I see likely to get worse than them in unknown part of London.'

Concerning stuff!

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Icedtangoblast@reddit

‘your world if it doesn’t have the ability for you and you don’t want it in the same place you want to live and be a human again in your own home or a family or something else to be a part in the same way that we do today’

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TalkingCat910@reddit

I think the people involved in AI were saying it might have a bad outcome, but some of that is for hype and attention to increase market cap.

I think it will have a negative effect on society but idk about catastrophic

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CorvidCorbeau@reddit

Not to be that guy, but it's Russian Roulette with a revolver that has 19 chambers loaded and 1 empty

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Cottager_Northeast@reddit

Yeah, that's not a thing. More like a 20 round clip with 19 in it.

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kingrobin@reddit

that analogy doesn't work because there's 100% chance that a round will be fired.

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Cottager_Northeast@reddit

I know! Right!?!

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possiblecurb@reddit

It's safe to say it's just roulette.

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Signal-Income9001@reddit (OP)

lol

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SadExercises420@reddit

lol

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DeltaForceFish@reddit

On the plus side; if there is a great power war between america and china; the others wont happen. Everyone will be back to farming with their hands and cows.

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Signal-Income9001@reddit (OP)

I don't think they are gonna fall back to farming so easily. It's gonna be a 90% will die, 7% will scavange, 3% will farm, and then in 20 years after its gonna be most if not all farming

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possiblecurb@reddit

How many of those 3% will know how to farm for a population though? I think globally, the first world countries are fucked in any scenario when water goes.

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PowerandSignal@reddit

Umm... when water goes everyone is fucked.

"You never miss your water until the well runs dry."

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possiblecurb@reddit

I don't have high hopes for people foraging, much less confident in finding water that doesn't drink you.

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collapse-ModTeam@reddit

Rule 14: AI-generated content may not be posted to /r/collapse. No self-posts, no comments, no links to articles or blogs or anything else generated by AI or AI influencers/personas. No AI-generated images or videos or other media. No "here's what AI told me about [subject]", "I asked [AI] about [subject]" or the like. This includes content substantively authored by AI.

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blacked_out_blur@reddit

The body of this post fucking reeks of AI.

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skywalkerww@reddit

Yes, also medium.com is a site were anyone can write slop. He could’ve done a better job

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Blood-PawWerewolf@reddit

Medium is nothing but AI slop and paywalled nonsense. They shouldn’t be trusted as a source for anything

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Blood-PawWerewolf@reddit

Yup. Saw the typical “it’s not X, it’s Y” phrase they always spit out and immediately downvoted

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crazy4donuts4ever@reddit

Does that make the content less valid?

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_coyotebongwater@reddit

yes

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RedditAppSucksRIF@reddit

YES!

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Swimming-Soup5868@reddit

Yeah it does im op (alt account) I wrote a real one and pumped it into ai to write 4 more versions of the same thing so I can slowly seep them into medium over the course of 3 weeks though I do believe in collapse. I used this subreddit to garner attention to my ai slop article to boost myself. Im taking advantage of what I can before time runs out

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Swimming-Soup5868@reddit

Im saying this is because most still won't see it and its worked.

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blacked_out_blur@reddit

Except nobody is reading your article based on what is obviously a ChatGPT filtered sloppification of any coherent thought. You’re a pathetic contributor to the current shitstain of a society you’re complaining about.

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blacked_out_blur@reddit

Objectively so.

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Malthusianismically@reddit

He literally just edited out the bullet points 😂

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paulovitorfb@reddit

Thanks chat

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possiblecurb@reddit

Receipts for who though? Other than being *scary this is useless.

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Swimming-Soup5868@reddit

Reaps in views I guess

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TheGoodScientist@reddit

Probably not

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Miserable-Day7417@reddit

Only certainty is uncertainty.

I think we will destroy ourselves in a more spectacular and unpredictable way than we can imagine. I also have a feeling that there will be survivors that are more resilient than we imagine. Whatever that means isn’t necessarily for me to know.

Not to say that’s a good thing, I will suffer in my lifetime. Then again, what human hasn’t ?

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Psychological_Fun172@reddit

Good perspective, I agree. One of the lessons from studying history is that horrible stuff, much of it unprecedented, has always been going on. While it sucks to be at the high water mark of our civilization, it's also probably still one of the best time periods to be alive in.

It's a hell of a show, though!

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