Comment by kadoban
2 months ago
> 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?
If you don't like the rules of the game, you don't have to play it.
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.”
It's not that complicated, you just literally choose to not participate in the thought experiment and you move on with your life.