What are some examples of marvellous projects human beings have undertaken that took ~ a century or more?
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
I think people underrate long-lived institutions as an example of this sort of project, and scandalously underrate emergent phenomena like cities/communities writ large/etc.
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Replying to @patio11 @michael_nielsen
Like, contingent on there ever being more than 1,000 humans alive on Mars, I model it as ~100% likely that there will be Catholic and Mormon religious education available there, which is not something formal institutions have plans for per se but *will happen anyway, inevitably.*
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Replying to @patio11 @michael_nielsen
And so in a certain sense the school is a thousand year project presently blocking on, among other things, rockets.
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