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The problems are many but the way I see it, we’ve had math for Newtonian mechanics for about 350 years and today we’re flying helicopters on Mars.

Long enough term, hard things are possible, if we don’t kill ourselves first.




“If we don’t kill ourselves first” is doing all the heavy lifting here. I’m not convinced that more time helps us, given that civilization itself is very fragile and we are continually a moment away from nuclear holocaust ending everything we’ve worked to achieve. And that’s not even bringing up the damage we’re doing to the environment we derive all this prosperity from.




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