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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by Supermancho on Friday May 17, 2019 @11:31AM (#19940530)
You're focusing on the wrong scale. Intelligence has skyrocketed in the past thousand years. Policy decisions in our lifetime, do not matter or they end all human matters at once.
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Re:As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern by moate on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:23PM (#19941651)
Certain policy decisions matter on a larger scale. Killing off millions of people has to have some meaning on future abilities, right?

I think that generally I agree with you, but I would tend to say you have a small (but >0) number of things that would have huge long term ripples.

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