Roko puts 15% odds on months-long internet shutdown; rebuttal: the internet routes around failure
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-24
RokoMijic argues we should take seriously the possibility of the internet shutting down for months or more, putting personal odds at 15%. basedjensen rebuts that the internet cannot be shut down — routing around failure is the whole point of its design. A short exchange on infrastructure resilience under AI-risk scenarios.
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