Can 'Hackstability' Save Civilization?

[Speck Tater]

1. Sounds pretty shaky to me.

Especially the part where the article says "All you can hope for is to keep hacking and extending its life in increasingly brittle ways, and hope to avoid a big random event that triggers collapse."

It's that "increasingly brittle" part combined with the inevitability of the "random event" part that spells eventual doom for this attempt to stack band-aids infinitely thick on the problem.

The kind of hacking I'm seeing in my crystal ball is learning how to turn nickles and quarters into metal arrowheads for small game hunting.