Probably until my first paper cut and infection after all the antibiotic starts to expire, it’s likely game over some time soon after.
You are way overestimating how often antibiotics are needed. I’ve used them once in my life and it was only a precaution, probably not needed. People who get antibiotics for every little thing are largely responsible for their loss in effectiveness.
Honestly, the biggest issue would be mental, trying to figure out if there was any reason to continue.
Luckily I have a lot of experience with that debate.
So the last survivor will be chronically depressed?
If it’s me, yes.
If I were the last person on earth, I’d probably kill myself pretty quickly
Probably until I get sick or die of old age.
I’ll probably do things like ransack my local library for book like the SAS handbook, plant identification, etc to bring with me, hijack a truck that’s already ready to go, load all useful stuff including a small backup car/motorbike and head for the sub-tropics somewhere to a forest next to a city.
Just make sure you do it fast and remember that, contrary to what walking dead would have you believe, gasoline goes bad.
Round about a day or two. I’d likely make an oopsie while letting the zoo animals out and get myself slaughtered.
By playing beatbox music and making everyone stay away from me while I grew corn and ate it slowly in front of them while they watched me cautiously from a distance.
By everyone, I mean nonhumans (nonhuman animals).
I misread the question.
I’m intrigued. What question did you answer?
Provided you knew what you were doing, indefinitely. Or until you died of old age or managed to contract a deadly disease/cancer/manage to injure yourself in a life threatening way that you can’t treat yourself.
You might not be happy about it. But growing basic crops, storing away dried grains for the winter, hunting and dressing animals, making a fire to cook them, etc. should be well within the reach of anyone capable of reading this. Neanderthals could do it, so can you.
If you didn’t know what you were doing, well, until you ran out of easily scavengable canned goods and/or died of botulism from eating one of them that wasn’t as canned as you thought.
Yeah my plan (dream) has always been like this:
- Use the internet while I have it (assuming people just all disappear suddenly) to download survival guides, solar panel repair/installation PDFs, maps, etc. Anything I can think of, I’ll download
- Gas only lasts so long. I can use chemicals that extend it, but it’s definitely limited. I’d start with a gas powered truck and eventually move into electric vehicles. Batteries aren’t forever either… But I’d try.
- I’d move to a warm, temperate climate
- I’d find a building that claims it is powered by solar panels most of the year. I’d use that as my home
- I’d immediately begin trying to farm. I have a black thumb so this would take me some years to get done correctly. But I’d hopefully have some potatoes and grain growing by the end of a year
- In the meantime, I might find things to occupy my time such as: finding videogames to play, raising chickens, fishing, collecting guns/ammo, collecting books to preserve, storing solar panels, backup equipment, etc.
My end goal would be to survive as long as I’m happy. I’m pretty introverted so that would last a while. I’d use animals to keep me company. I believe nature would take us over pretty quickly. It would be hard to maintain the house, solar, etc. forever. But if I could, I would.
My wife and I already do a lot of foraging in our area and we have several guides for edible food. We also do some canning and prepping for disasters.
I don’t think a disaster would be a picnic. People are the problem. But if they disappeared suddenly, I think it would be pretty livable.
Use the internet while I have it (assuming people just all disappear suddenly) to download survival guides, solar panel repair/installation PDFs, maps, etc. Anything I can think of, I’ll download
AI would be really useful in this scenario. Have a whole internet’s worth of information at your disposal with a fraction of the storage costs.
Probably still want the actual manuals and guides for the important stuff tho…
Have a whole internet’s worth of information at your disposal with a fraction of the storage costs.
without humans to keep it going the internet’s going bye bye quickly.
I mean like, a local model. Hence the benefit of having the info at a fraction of the storage cost.
oh man this is hilarious. so you think if the AI is local the corpus it’s been taught upon doesn’t need to be stored?
it’s worse - you need the processing power (many many many gpus requiring enormous amounts of power) coupled to enormous amounts of material to educate the language model on.
sorry man there aren’t any shortcuts.
so you think if the AI is local the corpus it’s been taught upon doesn’t need to be stored?
You don’t need to store the training data. What’s “hilarious” is how confidently incorrect you are.
This, for example, is a model small enough to run on your phone that was trained on ~895GB of data.
Even if I did need to keep all of that data, and even if I also needed to train it myself, what’s stopping me from just stealing all the equipment I need if I’m the last person on earth???
and what use would this be to someone after the world ends?
AGAIN THE POWER REQUIREMENTS BELLEND.
Do you have a fusion reactor in your pocket?
And a freshwater source the size of a lake? because you’ll need both to run the data center required to run anything USEFUL.
phew… steal all the equipment you want, you wouldn’t be able to do shit all with it. just keeping a single data center UP would be a herculean task for a single person - without robots or trained monkeys or alien buds to help you I’m exceptionally dubious.
I can just imagine you pushing a shopping cart of 4080ti’s through the hellscape towards a data center thinking “shit yeah I GOT this apocalypse solved” l-o-fucking-l
Neanderthals (and humans for that matter) did indeed but they did it in groups, usually. Being alone really stacks the odds against you I think.
Well, you’re going to have a much harder time taking down wooly mammoths, that’s for sure.
Indefinitely. Just punch a tree; punch a sheep; punch a rock. Y’all so lazy these days.
