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Comment by drewzero1 | Hacker News Reader

See also, the Long Now Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation

Do you blame him? He can probably make more than $400k a year grifting with NFTs, doing an order of magnitude less work.

I don't blame anyone for fooling around with alternative date formats but I do find it a bit silly, and distracting from whatever serious point they were trying to make. I can't imagine the hubris of believing anything we say or do now will matter (or even exist) 7900 years from now, and it's not going to be a problem before then-- if our date system is somehow still in use by that point!

...I think this might have been meant for another comment/thread anyway.

Whoops, yes my comment was meant for a totally different thread.

Yeah, I wish I made US$400k a year. Shit, I'd be satisfied with AR$400k a year, at least until inflation gets a bit worse.

Pretty sure the distraction of people complaining about people fooling around with alternative date formats is at least 100 times greater than the distraction of people using them.

I think it's plausible that things we say or do now will matter 7900 years from now. The languages we speak today, and the beef, pork, and wheat we eat, are to a significant extent the result of the Bug-Dniester culture 7900 years ago; and Voyager 2 will very likely still exist 7900 years from now unless we catch up with it. And the advent of writing has made it much easier for direct cultural influence to span vast gaps of time.

I think it's very likely that the human species will become extinct within a century, but quite possible that something will survive because of what we say and do today.

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