I rarely reread my own stuff, but suddenly felt like rereading this one from 2010…
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Vague thought of other kinds of ancient rivers besides money, like stories that circulate endlessly
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Trying to imagine how I might explain how I’m spending my life to someone who lived 6000 years ago or might be living 6000 years in the future 🤔
It’s the “ancient river of X” question
Quite hard.
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Two thoughts:
1. I now and then have the same difficulty, but trying to explain it to myself.
2. I’d assume it not to be difficult, but complicated: the incentives are the same but the process is different.
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