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shokwave comments on The Long Now - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Nic_Smith 12 December 2010 01:40AM

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Comment author: shokwave 12 December 2010 08:45:26AM 7 points [-]

One major difference: LessWrong has a common (if not prevailing) view that the billion-year-scale future of most of the universe will be decided in the decade-scale future. In a sense, the last page of one book and the first page of a much greater one.

The Long Now seems less like "today's thinking will define the future" and more like "today's thinking needs to be extensible into the future"