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ooli  ·  1760 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The 10,000-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time

I agree, the article doesn't feel genuine. But the point it make is relevant: thinking for 10k years, is a good excuse for rich people to not give a fuck about today.

The Long Now released a (pretty lame) podcast a few hours ago: http://podcast.longnow.org/salt/salt-020200115-venkataraman-podcast.mp3

Where they totally acknowledge that their 10k year view, is just a rich man problem (and they even address how they can "incite" the poors to think on the same timescale... yeah it's mostly a bad podcast)

About the clock??? Yeah the guy building it should have stay on his cancer research job, for the long term good of humanity. But I guess cancer research bring less immediate fame than a cool unique clock