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> ... I can't imagine anything else ever topping it ... In 2500 (say) this will probably seem like a very funny statement (because some amazing developments w
by billforsternz 4y ago
> ... I can't imagine anything else ever topping it ...
In 2500 (say) this will probably seem like a very funny statement (because some amazing developments we can barely imagine will surely come along and be monetized to an extent we can also barely imagine).
Either that or you're right which would be very bad news for humanity (think the great filter).
- billforsternz 4y agoFor the record, I was very surprised to get a downvote for this. I think it's very common, more or less universal actually, to forget that we are only alive for a tiny slice of human history - and it's basically absurd to imagine that things that happen right now will remain uniquely important for all of future time. Basically this is flawed thinking, like those fallacies that people routinely debunk here. Of course one way that this thinking might not actually be flawed is if it turns out there's not too much future time (for the human race). And my comment covered that too, more elegantly than I'm doing here.