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The world needs its best experts to explain and compile complex ideas simply enough and concisely enough for more laymen to understand. This trickling down of knowledge and ideas will grow exponentially.

Mine are 22,21 & 18 now and they hold me to all my promises to this date. I raised them to never accept less. This is not easy though.

Best thing about this is that while adults seem mostly oblivious to the point, increasingly many children are starting to show wisdom enough to say what needs saying: "I won't be able to remember things or pass them to my own children if Earth is uninhabitable. Fix Climate now."

or just whisper it to your spouse within earshot of a small child

Humans mind have evolved to an extent that the child will pass on this promise to his child #Recursion #SelfishGenes

as a Dad of 6 kiddos, I can confirm this truth. I would trust the memory of a child over blockchain or RAM any day. Also, small children have built in notification reminders.

The Blockchain is just someone else's small child

biased recall in my experience though - so need to determine and apply the appropriate statistical transform to any such data