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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 11 Aug 2018
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    A wild thing: we have institutions which can trivially keep multi-decade commitments (like e.g. mortgages or pensions). The number drops way off after the 100 year mark (top end of universities, a small set of governments, and churches). It gets even smaller at ~250 years.

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      1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 11 Aug 2018
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        A thing we probably should get better at, as humanity, is the 80~250 year range. (Not obvious that this is desirable? Well, what statements do you *definitely* want to be true about the world in 2100 or 2250? I can think of *lots.*)

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      2. James Bach  🎶 🎷 🐛‏ @qweety_ 11 Aug 2018
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        there.... there are institutions with 250 year commitments???

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 11 Aug 2018
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        I think there is a subset of promises you could ask e.g. the Catholic Church or the United States to make about 2265 which you could model out as about as likely as being substantially kept as a 35 year mortgage from a bank. (They might not be all the promises one would want.)

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      2. Noah Tye‏ @noahlt 11 Aug 2018
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        Related: I don't think there have been any space probes designed to continue transmitting data after their creators' deaths. Our time horizon is strongly limited to the human lifespan.

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      3. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle 11 Aug 2018
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        Many of the original Voyager engineers have passed; it’s still going, and doing science

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      2. Bill Stewart‏ @BillStewart415 11 Aug 2018
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        Oxford needed to replace some wooden roof beams, and found that the university foresters had been keeping a plot of trees around for just that purpose for a few centuries.

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      3. KGRhetorical‏ @KGRhetorical 12 Aug 2018
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        That and the one about the man in France who single-handedly reforested a whole region are two of my favorite stories from the old Whole Earth Catalog.

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      2. Mike Doherty‏ @mikedoherty_ca 11 Aug 2018
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        The multi-generational projects in the Dune universe were awe-inspiring and utterly captivated me because we have nothing even close.

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      3. andrew turley ( 🧠 🍩,  💔 ➡️ ❤️)‏ @casio_juarez 11 Aug 2018
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        It’s interesting because things like cathedrals used to be multi-generational projects.

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      1. Hassy Veldstra‏ @hveldstra 11 Aug 2018
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        A living artifact from the Dutch Golden Age: Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest - https://news.yale.edu/2015/09/22/living-artifact-dutch-golden-age-yale-s-367-year-old-water-bond-still-pays-interest …

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