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The Million Year Machine

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Is Your Best Million Year Machine a Civilization?

Only a fool ignores the lessons of history or wisdom of their ancestors and forefathers. If, as we've seen to day, your most reliable, enjoined and self reparing machine is a smart one, then is not your best million year machine a civilization itself? And do they actually need to leave a monmoth behind telling us how to make fire and what it can be used for? That which useful is really forgotten? And if it isn't, maybe a vast effort to insure it is recalled is not a great plan.

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