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jacobgoldlast Saturday at 6:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

The Earth only developed intelligent life a few million years ago, us (homo sapiens) a few hundred thousand years ago.

We've only been in "technological takeoff" for ~250 years and are already using spaceships and computers to deliver and operate drones on Mars.

Now imagine 250 years + 1,000,000 years.


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temp0826last Saturday at 6:57 PM

Civilizations collapse, do you think we're immune to that now because technology is at some level?

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nkrisclast Saturday at 7:22 PM

It is impressive, but there’s no reason to think it will continue on the same trajectory.