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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Power of Compound Growth

When we were hunter-gatherers, growth was very close to zero. As farmers, growth was more like 0.1%. So doubling every few hundred years or so. And so relative to the past, we are speeding through technological development much, much faster than for most of human history before. I think at some point with this level of progress,. we would get very close to basically discovering almost everything that is to discover on the order of a few thousand years. However, as you said, there are hundreds of millions of years to go, potentially.

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