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  1. Comment on What is your favorite song of all time and why? in ~music

    kheiligh
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    This was mine for the longest time as well... still is definitely in the top 5, depending on what I can to listen to

    This was mine for the longest time as well... still is definitely in the top 5, depending on what I can to listen to

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  3. Comment on Do you think the world is getting better or worse? in ~talk

    kheiligh
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    I guess it depends on what you mean by better, what your metric and scale are... as said above, overall wealth, health and happiness are growing - however, we're working on a scale of a few...

    I guess it depends on what you mean by better, what your metric and scale are... as said above, overall wealth, health and happiness are growing - however, we're working on a scale of a few thousand years. To put that in perspective, fossils of Tyrannosaurus Rex range in age from at least 500,000 years to 2 million years. So our timescale is immensely compacted, and I would say it's far too early to know with any certainty what "good" even is. Are we advancing, technologically and socially at an insanely fast rate? For sure... but what that brings, no one can know.

    For my money, I'm torn between thinking we might be able to get off this rock, and spread to the rest of the solar system (and maybe even galaxy one day), and that we're going to wipe ourselves out in the next hundred years or so (see: tipping point), and life will continue on in its more common, non-sentient fashion for a few more billion years until the sun goes nova...

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