16/ (compare the USG reach in 1800 vs DoD / State department global reach in 2020, where it's a matter of vital national importance that US dollars be spent so that Pakistani children can be be taught that gender norms are social constructed)
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27/ http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_4/notes15.html … For instance, consider the stages in the life of a 25 Msun star: Hydrogen fusion lasts 7 million years Helium fusion lasts 500,000 years Carbon fusion lasts 600 years Neon fusion lasts 1 year Oxygen fusion lasts 6 months Silicon fusion lasts 1 day
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was. was a slower and more boring process industrial society does everything on steroids though. there's no reason to expect stuff to happen at the same rate as in agricultural societies. we've never seen one like ours collapse before.
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I think we'll see a weird combination of big data and astrology / occult practices and see people (and AIs) emerging out of that
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You sound like Hari Selden explaining psychohistory. Your star metaphor is right. The other indicator of near-term collapse is that I'm looking to retire in a few years to a nice, quiet country place and presumably live off my savings and maybe my soc sec. Or maybe not...
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