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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there.... there are institutions with 250 year commitments???
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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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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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Many of the original Voyager engineers have passed; it’s still going, and doing science
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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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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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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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It’s interesting because things like cathedrals used to be multi-generational projects.
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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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