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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 12
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    If civilization were a person how old would it be? In literal terms it’s about 12,000 years old counting from the Neolithic revolution. I’m thinking about 38.

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      1. TheEclecticSeer‏ @theeclecticseer Jan 12
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        What are you saying! Midlife blues?

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      1. Sam Panini  🇺🇸‏ @SampathPanini Jan 12
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        Kind of depends on how you’re defining civilizations throughout those 12,000 years. There was key periods, such as the #AxialAge that could be considered either adolescent or college-age.

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        Life expectancy

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      2. Rik, but unironically.‏ @CertainlyNotRik Jan 12
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        What niggles me here is that with a person, their most dramatic period of change is when they're very young (under 18, say) but civilization ages the other way; 10 millennia of gradual progress then 1-2 millennia of much more dramatic change. Civilization as Benjamin Button?

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        The changes probably are at the same rate, it's just that we pay attention to different bits. The changes that happen in children are mostly gross (large), as are the changes in a young planet. Later on, changes are fractal, and add complexity in the details (intellect/tech).

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        If it weren’t lindy I’d say either 14 (thinks it’s a lot cleverer than it is, irrationally angry with the world, entitled) or 72 (ditto)

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      1.  💎holyweather 🌞‏ @upoutandaway Jan 12
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        It used to be 55, but now it's 16yrs old and throwing a tantrum

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      1. Roland Turner‏ @rolandturner Jan 12
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        2; can't yet walk without damaging its environment.

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      1. Karl  ✨‏ @karlitooo Jan 13
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        I’d say about we’re about 6 based on how we’d behave around other civilisations

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        Kardashev scale-wise at all status types seems we might be close to newborns.

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