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86. A Million-Year View on Morality

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Humanity Is Only in Its Adolescence

We live under this illusion of being weighed on the chain, but unless we manage to destroy humanity, it is not true. The very most conservative number would be something like a thousand to one. But i think real numbers would be trillions to one, maybe trillions of trillions to one. Those are big numbers. We merely take seriously the implication of the fact that we're plausibly so early on in civilization.

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