If you had to pick a date for when “the world as we know it” began, whatever that means to you, what would it be?
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Our era is the industrial era, which began gradually, sometime in 1600-1800.
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Replying to @robinhanson
I think the fact that I don’t exactly believe that underlies most of the differences between us that aren’t simply demographic.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
There are of course many differences between eras, but the largest differences in history are between the four great eras. Historians mostly agree with this. What difference would you suggest as larger than that?
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Replying to @robinhanson
I became convinced by the claim in Moral Mazes (which I think was not original to the author) that the era of “the Protestant work ethic” (1600s-mid-1800s in the Anglosphere, with a hard stop in 1914) was a time when most businesses were small and most “workers” self-employed...
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
I'm not denying the existence or importance of that distinction. My question is: if you can only pick two bits of distinction to describe the last 100Myrs, what would they be? That's a very high bar, and most distinctions won't meet it.
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Oh, at *that* timescale you’re correct. I tend to think of “the world” in the Heideggerian sense of “a cultural milieu’s sense of what’s normal”
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