What about a million years?
Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in 1000 years?
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#2Are you limiting the discussion to positive outcomes? A friend on mine used to say if you can't be famous you might as well be infamous. I don't really buy in to that, but some people might need clarification.
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#3for million it's simple, do anything, butterfly effect will do the rest for you.
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#4Pioneering scientific discoveries and engineering new technologies are the only two lasting, positive impacts one can ever have in life. Anything else is either non-impactful or simply cultural changes, which are neutral to our species in the long run.
What we can do as a species and what we actually understand about the universe are the two fundamental aspects of humanity that have any significance just ten generations later. And of the two, learning something new about the universe and sharing it is far more significant of an impact. It will last longer because of the nature of science to build upon previous discoveries.
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#5Pioneering scientific discoveries and engineering new technologies are the only two lasting, positive impacts one can ever have in life. Anything else is either non-impactful or simply cultural changes, which are neutral to our species in the long run. What we can do as a species and what we actually understand about the universe are the two fundamental aspects of humanity that have any significance just ten generati…
Although it's only been about 800 years, Genghis Khan might form a worthy counterexample to that assertion, judging by his disproportionate impact on the human genome.
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#6write a groundbreaking philosophy book like nietzsche
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#7"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
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#8"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
How about a million years?
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#9Pioneering scientific discoveries and engineering new technologies are the only two lasting, positive impacts one can ever have in life. Anything else is either non-impactful or simply cultural changes, which are neutral to our species in the long run. What we can do as a species and what we actually understand about the universe are the two fundamental aspects of humanity that have any significance just ten generati…
Religion and/or morality is a cultural change that has definitely proven to be not neutral to our species in the long run, so far.
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#10write a groundbreaking philosophy book like nietzsche
Which book? And what impact did it have?