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Unless you are personally working to stop the inevitable Heat Death of the Universe, there are always bigger problems to solve.
by namuol 8y ago
Unless you are personally working to stop the inevitable Heat Death of the Universe, there are always bigger problems to solve.
- abfan1127 8y agoI didn't say it was necessarily a good point, just that it was their point.
- code_duck 8y agoThe heat death of the universe poses no risk to me, though. I don’t consider that to be a problem.
- namuol 8y agoClimate change poses no risk to people over 70.
- code_duck 8y agoI don’t think that’s necessarily true, since it could even cause problems during their lifetime (~20 years?). It could cause problems for their children, friends, society, loved ones, and so forth over the next 100 years and that could be construed to be a personal risk. However the heat death of the universe can’t possibly affect with certainty any entity we now know, even the earth itself or solar system. The difference between 10^2 years and 10^100 years is significant enough for me to discount that comparison.