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#512 - Will MacAskill - How Long Could Humanity Continue For?

Modern Wisdom

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We're at the Very Beginning of History

We are both very small in the universe, am, and also very early in it. Almost all of the universe's development is still to come ahead of us. A typical mammal species lives around a million years. We've been going for 300 thousand years. That would put 700 thousand years to come. If you give just a one % chance to us sperinter you know, tars and staying as long as lasting, well we've got a life expectancy for a tillion years.

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