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nasredin on Aug 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Steven Johnson on “Spacewar” [video]

OT.

Because I am a pessimist and have a view that humanity will not survive that long. At least in the form where all of this shit will matter.

Planet Earth will be fine, but people 8,000 years from now?...

Torwald on Aug 1, 2018 [–]

I still don't get what makes the 5 digits year count "clever" then. You think humanity will not be there in 8k years, ok, but how does that make the 5 digits clever?

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