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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is the Interest in the Past Correlative to the Future?
Google N-gram shows how interest in a date declines faster than does the population grow with time. Some people have argued plausibly that maybe most interest in the past falls with this fast function, but some unusual category of interest won't fall that fast quickly and then that eventually would dominate. But if we just look at the ordinary process by which people simulate recent hair, there's very few video games where you play someone in the Roman Empire.
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