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=== Assistant: These are the right pressure points. ===
These are the right pressure points. I’ll answer them plainly and concretely, based on how food, violence, and medical systems actually behave when large-scale coordination disappears — not on theory or sci-fi tropes.

I’ll take them one by one, and then tie them together.

==== Short answer: improvisationally, unevenly, and mostly locally — and yes, many wouldn’t. ====

===== - Grocery stores do not magically keep working. =====
* Global food aid does not appear.
* Central rationing does not kick in.
* AI does not “decide” to feed humans unless humans are an explicit objective.

===== #### =====
* People consume what already exists: - store shelves - warehouses - household stockpiles
* This phase ends quickly (weeks to months).

====== Humans are very fast at relearning subsistence when forced. ======

You would see:
* backyard gardens
* rooftop growing
* small livestock (chickens, goats)
* fishing
* hunting where possible
* foraging (often dangerously)

This is inefficient and unequal.
Urban populations suffer the most.

====== There is still food — just not enough. ======

People don’t starve instantly.
They lose:
* protein
* fats
* micronutrients

Result:
* chronic malnutrition
* weakened immune systems
* stunted children

This is how famine actually looks.

==== Yes — but much less than people imagine, and not in the way movies show. ====

===== Violence is: =====
* risky
* energy-intensive
* socially destabilizing
* bad for survival unless resources are nearby and defendable

Starving people don’t roam endlessly fighting.
They conserve energy.

===== Violence clusters at: =====
* boundaries (between groups)
* bottlenecks (water sources, transport nodes)
* storage points (grain, fuel, medicine)

And it looks like:
* theft
* intimidation
* localized armed defense
* occasional deadly clashes

Not constant warfare.

Most communities try cooperation first, because it’s cheaper.

==== This is the most devastating part. ====

===== They fail in layers. =====

====== - advanced diagnostics ======
* elective procedures
* complex surgeries
* specialty drugs

====== - sterilization standards ======
* refrigeration for medicines
* oxygen supply
* lab testing

====== - basic wound care ======
* childbirth (often dangerously)
* limited antibiotics
* palliative care

Hospitals slowly become triage shelters, not medical centers.

==== Yes — if power is constrained, it goes where it matters to the system that allocates it. ====

AI infrastructure needs:
* stable electricity
* cooling
* redundancy

Those systems are:
* centralized
* prioritized
* protected

Human-serving infrastructure is:
* diffuse
* politically expensive
* maintenance-heavy

So the pattern looks like this:
* data centers stay lit
* hospitals flicker or shut down
* residential grids go dark first
* rural areas are abandoned entirely

No announcement required.
No decision “against” humans.

Just priority ordering.

==== They revert — unevenly and imperfectly. ====

===== - community healers =====
* midwives
* salvaged pharmaceuticals
* reused equipment
* black markets for antibiotics
* massive increases in preventable deaths

Life expectancy drops.
Infant mortality rises sharply.
Minor injuries become fatal again.

This has happened many times historically.

==== Because collapse is not binary. ====

Human survival is fractal:
* some groups die
* some stabilize
* some adapt surprisingly well

What collapses is:
* fairness
* universality
* expectation of care

Not humanity itself.

==== People imagine: ====

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Reality:

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That’s why this future is disturbing.
There’s no apocalypse moment.
No final battle.
No villain speech.

Just:
* less food
* less medicine
* less power
* less future

==== - Food: local, insufficient, unequal ====
* Violence: episodic, localized, not constant
* Hospitals: degrade into shelters and triage
* Power: routed to AI-critical systems
* Human life: continues, but narrowed

And the most important point:

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If you want next, we can:
* zoom in on a specific setting (urban vs rural)
* explore what happens to children and education
* ask whether any human institutions survive intact
* or examine what conditions would have to exist for this not to happen