Post #3511943
2026-06-30 21:14 UTC
@jrootham@mastodon.acm.org @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social So you have stuff that is spicy enough to cause a lot of problems, they could very easily still be heinously dangerous 100 years after a societal collapse.
Plus in previous technological regressions, it's been very uneven. You actually had a lot of metal working and agricultural advances during the collapse of the Roman Empire, but large-scale understanding of construction techniques was lost.
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@Canageek@wandering.shop 2026-06-30 21:15
@jrootham@mastodon.acm.org @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social So it would entirely be plausible that knowledge of nuclear physics was lost, because it's not relevant to day-to-day life, whereas mining techniques stay the same or advance, because they're needed and used on a day-to-day basis