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x Turning 20 in the probable pre-apocalypse — LessWrong Emotions Motivations AI Curated 2025 Top Fifty: 14 % 444 Turning 20 in the probable pre-apocalypse by Parv Mahajan 21st Dec 2025 3 min read 66 444 Master version of this on https://parvmahajan.com/2025/12/21/turning-20.html I turn 20 in January, and the world looks very strange. Probably, things will change very quickly. Maybe, one of those things is whether or not we’re still here. This moment seems very fragile, and perhaps more than most moments will never happen again. I want to capture a little bit of what it feels like to be alive r

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