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Haha, I clicked without reading the URL. Then I read the "01931" in the text, immediately looked at the URL and of course it was longnow.org. Brought a smile to my face.
Nonsense formatting.
https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-long-now/
Both are pretty obscure references for now, but I can easily imagine a world where they both become widely known in separate groups. Like the word "legacy" has hilariously different connotations for software engineers as compared to _everyone else_
Asking "How would you build a 10k year clock?" is one of my favorite ways to get to know people, say, at parties.
With a few seconds to mull it over, so far EVERYONE has had at least one strong, novel and leftfield idea that I had not heard or thought of before.
My favorites included: A mirror on the moon, bio-engineered crops and the Pyramids of Gizeh.
Is sarcasm, but it may as well not be since that America is long dead and gone and has been replaced by an America that really needs to be renamed at this point.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The sentients of 101931 won’t be confused because they will know that 01931 refers to our time. They may well be confused, because by then this silly "long now" stuff will be long since forgotten.
Consider that every culture's predominant method of writing has undergone significant changes over a given millennia long period. I'm not about to confuse the date on a photograph of a wax tablet for a modern one.
I’m the author of the original posts on https://oskarjwhansen.org and can confirm that the Star Map restoration project finished near the end of 2025. I’d been planning to get an announcement post up this week but saw the HN attention and wanted to put fears to rest.