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The human project
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What it looks like through the eyes of the species.
ⓘ This post is more than a year old. Update 2025: this brief essay is now in print! It's been included in an essay collection from the FABRIC community. Reach out for more info. :) H umanity will likely not become immortal in my lifetime. I will probably die, and probably so will everyone else alive today. There is a completely new set of humans on earth every 150 years. It's hard to cope with mortality. When I was younger, I did that by telling myself I'd be rich and powerful and to use those things to make the world better. I used to think that I wanted to make the world better out of some s
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