One of the greatest opening lines ever — from an old @robinhanson classic on life in the year 1,000,000 AD http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/hardscra.pdf …pic.twitter.com/ftcg7ohMgs
(The whole paper is great btw. A few of my [old] thoughts on it here: http://www.meltingasphalt.com/stories-and-theories/#anecdote …)
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the distinction between "local" and "distant" talk assumes, unjustifiably, uniform psychological time
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why unjustifiable? i think (uncertainly) that it's safe to assume everyone's running at full speed to be maximally competitive
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Another assumption expansion outward, through space. If time is not fundamentally discrete, we can expand inwardly in time.
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