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How big of a hit is it on the future generation, they can just change their DST, which already happens every few years anyways?



The critical question is whether they'll have to leap forward or fall backward. We simply cannot abide stealing an hour of sleep from our cyborg/transhuman descendants. We'd never live it down.


When longtermism meets leap seconds.


Hopefully by the time they need to make an hour's adjustment, we'll have done away with the anachronism that is DST. So then they'll have to learn to do it all over again from scratch.




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