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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by mellosouls on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:06PM (#23214406)
We live in the most interesting 200 year period of Earth so far in its 4.5B year history

Even granting you the anthropocentric premise, the idea that the last 200 years are more interesting than any other similar period is not at all obvious.

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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by RivieraKid on Sunday May 17, 2020 @09:11PM (#23217155)
The progress in the last 200 years is completely incomparable with anything prior to that. Per the book Sapiens, the idea of progress is relatively new, people used to believe that things would stay the same or decline.
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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by mellosouls on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:09AM (#23221306)
The progress in the last 200 years is completely incomparable with anything prior to that.

Again, rather an unobvious claim. A greater leap than the Industrial Revolution, the Renaissance, the budding of Western Civilisation with the Greeks?

Perhaps it is, but unless you have a link to proof of this, it's best not to speak in such dogmatic terms, and accept that this is just a view you hold.

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