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The weirdness of the time we live in.

Richard Crim
13 min readNov 14, 2024
“Open the pod bay door HAL”.

I got reviewed by an AI on Reddit.

Someone asked an AI if my articles were believable.

So. If you read my last article, you know that I am forecasting a reduction in the human population of around 7 billion by 2050. A lot of people have asked me to justify that number. I’ll come back to that.

Besides being active on Medium and Substack I have become active in the r/Collapse subreddit. If you want to follow me there for more “unfiltered” commentary I am u/TuneGlum7903.

In what is EXTREMELY symbolic of our current moment I was “shadow banned” from the r/Climate subreddit in less than a week.

If you are unfamiliar with the term, it means that I could post comments but that no one else could see them. I wouldn’t ever know that no one else could see my posts. To me, it would just look like I was being ignored. It effectively makes you a “ghost”.

“Shadow Banning” someone on Reddit is what Moderators do to “cranks”. On the r/Climate subreddit I am regarded as a FRINGE Person. The kind of person you might see on a street corner who tries to shove a pamphlet into your hands.

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Richard Crim
Richard Crim

Written by Richard Crim

My entire life can be described in one sentence: Things didn’t go as planned, and I’m OK with that.

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