My partner and I met on okcupid where one of the “match” questions is “Would you rather live in good times or interesting times?” Just about everyone (including him) answered “interesting times” and I had posted a little comment on it saying something along the lines of “I feel like people are not actually thinking through the implications of this.”
Now whenever something “interesting” but shitty happens (see: the pandemic) I say, “remember when everyone on okcupid said they’d rather live through ‘interesting’ times…?” I’d prefer to just read about it in the history books.
There used to be a saying, “may you live in interesting times”
I never viewed it as friendly for this reason
Dude, none of these are gonna be considered “major.” If you were to travel to the year 2500 and asked people about COVID-19 or the war in Ukraine, only huge history nerds would have any idea of what you’re talking about
I think that the first AGI, which will probably be this decade, will be considered a major historical event by 2500, just like how we still consider the invention of the printing press a major historical event.
If the Ukraine war ends up escalating into WW3, I think that will count as well, unless we get up to like WWX.
If David Grusch is right, I think disclosure would make that list.
You mean we’re not still talking about the Cocoliztli epidemic and the Eighty Years’ War?
You’re setting the bar a little high by putting us 500 years in the future, though. I think things just 100 years or so ago can be considered “major”, and COVID-19 and Ukraine might both make the bill.
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Or you’re about politics or AI or just progress in general
Hot take. Would you really disagree that things have been fucked for the last 3+ years? Regarding “progress in general,” at this point, it doesn’t even feel like we’re moving in the right direction in many ways unless you’re a Christian billionaire.
