"The world keeps getting saved and you don’t notice" by Bogoed
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"The world keeps getting saved and you don’t notice" by Bogoed
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The world does not just ”keep working.” It keeps getting saved.
Y2K was a real problem. Computers really were set up in a way that could have broken our infrastructure, including banking, medical supply chains, etc. It didn’t turn into a disaster because people spent many human lifetimes of working hours fixing it. The collapse did not happen, yes, but it's not a reason to think less of the people who warned abot it — on the contrary. Nothing dramatic happened because they made sure it wouldn’t.
When someone looks back at this and says the problem was “overblown,” they’re doing something weird. They’re looking at a thing that was prevented and concluding it was never real.
Someone on Twitter once asked where the problem of the ozone hole had gone (in bad faith, implying that it — and other climate problems — never really existed). Hank Green explained it beautifully: you don't hear about it anymore because it's being solved. Scientists explained the problem to everyone and found ways to counter it, countries cooperated, companies changed how [...]
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First published:
February 16th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qnvmZCjzspceWdgjC/the-world-keeps-getting-saved-and-you-don-t-notice
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