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[Scoops Novel]

One likely response to what may seem to be a unmanageable future is trying to freeze the present. If you're doing that with disasters, you've got to bring something new to the table IMO. Bioweapons probably won't do it. Nukes go too far. So for the powerful luddite, what will they do to try to bring the world down a few notches for a while? What can actually stall progress?

[martinuzz]

Shut down Twitter.
Musk is on it.

[MaxTheFox]

Well I hope nobody actually does anything like that, in fact I'd try to stage a violent revolt against a Luddite state.

[EuchreJack]

Disasters don't freeze the present, they change it.
Have you learned nothing from COVID?

While an awful time in my and other survivor's lives, it has been highly transformative, with repercussions we still can't predict.

[Loud Whispers]

One likely response to what may seem to be a unmanageable future is trying to freeze the present. If you're doing that with disasters, you've got to bring something new to the table IMO. Bioweapons probably won't do it. Nukes go too far. So for the powerful luddite, what will they do to try to bring the world down a few notches for a while? What can actually stall progress?

-Ban Volturnian lobsters to halt the corruption of our youth
-Collapse cargo holds on atlas superfreighters and fuel tanks on prometheus tankers for improvised armour
-Load up on hammer torpedoes
-Wage war against the alpha cores
-Infiltrate Tri-Tachyon Corp. with sleeper cells

[Scoops Novel]

That's why you need something highly specific. Or not?

Maybe 5 or 5 different disasters to really gum up the works? Covid 21, a global EMP, trigger Yellowstone, allow one or two inconvenient technologies to develop - say cheap drone swarms - you've slowed global progress for a couple decades and damaged our technological base. Rinse, repeat. Go full Architect in the Matrix and essentially freeze our technological development. It wouldn't actually work though; all the big fish technologies would still end up being worked on, if only to solve current problems, and people would get hardened.

We're talking Nanobot swarms or we're locked into our technological development, maybe.

[MrRoboto75]

So for the powerful luddite, what will they do to try to bring the world down a few notches for a while? What can actually stall progress?

Donate to the Republican party

[Scoops Novel]

Like i said, doesn't work in practice. Same reason Ebola never gets off the ground, *too* lethal. And anything custom will get stonewalled eventually.

Nanobots or fetch.

[MaxTheFox]

Don't you think you are fighting windmills?

[Quarque]

I don't really understand the question tbh. But if you're looking for hilarious unlikely doomsday ideas, my favorite one was proposed by Elon Musk. He suggested that a General AI might decide that the best way to make us happy is to lock us all up and infuse us with so much endorphins that we're high 24/7. "You would like it, too."

[Scoops Novel]

I don't really understand the question tbh.

Nukes aren't the last risky thing we're going to invent. Following that logic, some people are just going to want to pause the game.