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Over the last two centuries, the global stock market has never lost money in nominal terms across any 20-year period.Their words
In the last 225 years, the global stock market has never experienced a 20-year period where stocks lost money in nominal terms.
20 August
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The main cause of falling fertility globally over the last 200 years has been declining child mortality.
We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com
15 August
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I know that nuclear fision will make energy a thousand times cheaper than it is today. somebody will do that and it's really up to us as a team whether or not that's going to be in the future decades or the future centuries
16 June
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It is often the case that a work which contains radically unusual ideas will drift along being not particularly zoomed in on by society and not widely read until it hits a moment that the new questions being asked in that century or that decade are answered by something in that text.
10 May
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this idea is old enough that we now have a generation of people who have been raised as if this was a natural law. This is how capitalism has always been. But that's wrong. For the vast majority of the time, for hundreds of years, we have had joint stock corporations. Only the last 40 have we had this idea.
2 July 2025
14 June 2025
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But I have faith that we've been doing this for centuries and we've made progress before. There's no reason why we should stop.
12 February 2025
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Far from being the laboratory that brought coal into the home, then, London was actually a laggard — all the more so given it had been buying coal from Newcastle for centuries.
22 December 2024
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A Mars base is not a backup plan for climate change or nuclear war, because self-sufficiency there is centuries away.Their words
So, trying to establish a base on Mars it's going to be so hard that it is not even going to be close to being self-sufficient for a couple a century at least. So, it's not like a backup plan now, we have to solve the problem of climate change, we have to deal with that.
9 February 2024
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It's the next step in a centuries-long human mission to conquer long-distance.
All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Prowaitbutwhy.com
13 December 2023
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If I were forced at gunpoint to guess, I'd say that human-level AI seemed to me like a slog of many more centuries or millennia
Their words now
I was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.
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Their words, before
If I were forced at gunpoint to guess, I’d say that human-level AI seemed to me like a slog of many more centuries or millennia (with the obvious potential for black swans along the way).
Their words now
I was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.
1 October 2023
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A simple understanding of coalitions, political competition, and limited resources will bring you rather quickly to the conclusion that intelligent liberal elites can screw up their colonies pretty badly and in ways that can persist for decades or centuries.
1 September 2023
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And the way of being in the physical world today is really not in tune with the time dimension of the natural world at all, and that needs to change.
29 August 2023
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Historical myths are especially zombie-like. Even when disproven, they just. won’t. die.
12 August 2023
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Instead of decades to centuries, I now see it as 5 to 20 years with 90% confidence.
11 August 2023
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