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> what organization could stay incorruptible for 10^9 years? Create a religion around the project, like the technicians priesthood in Asimov's Foundation or li
by avaldes 5y ago
> what organization could stay incorruptible for 10^9 years?
Create a religion around the project, like the technicians priesthood in Asimov's Foundation or like in some proposals for long term protection of radioactive waste sites https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warn...
- voakbasda 5y agoRight, because if there ever was a subset of humans that has never been corrupted, it’s the clergy…
- avaldes 5y agoIrrelevant in context. Priesthoods in the examples above are just structures to preserve and transmit the knowledge of their respective missions to future generations. However corrupted are real religions it can't be denied that they've been running under the same traditions and knowledge corpus for millennia, and that's the point.