Re:Orangutans are the only great apes besides humans to ‘tal...
by perlgeek on Friday November 16, 2018 @05:04AM
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> Could we let other apes and animals evolve over millions of years under our supervision and eye?
I think we must assume we cannot. There hasn't been any major civilization that has been around for more than a few hundred or thousands of years.
If we construct such a project in a way that it has a 0.01% chance to crumble in a single year (which is why lower than anything our society can achieve right now), there's about a 10% chance it fails within 10k years, a 63% chance it fails in 100k years, and a 99.995% chance it fails within a million years.
I think we must assume we cannot. There hasn't been any major civilization that has been around for more than a few hundred or thousands of years.
If we construct such a project in a way that it has a 0.01% chance to crumble in a single year (which is why lower than anything our society can achieve right now), there's about a 10% chance it fails within 10k years, a 63% chance it fails in 100k years, and a 99.995% chance it fails within a million years.