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Re: The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

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It's likely just a typo. LR5 "civilisation"/"civilization" brings up nothing on google. I don't know why you would an LLM to know more. Based on the way the person is using it, it does not seem to equate to the Kardashev scale, as my peer stated

Since the cat is out of the bag, no, it's not a typo. it's related to Kardashev but is oriented around the common path most galactic civilizations follow on the path to either senescence (LR8.0) or singularity (LR8.1-4). Each level in LR is effectively unaware of the levels above it, basically because the level above is an Outside Context Problem. Humans are currently LR2 (food security) and approaching LR3 (artifici…

I'd imagine it might be beneficial to you to read more than one book

Re: The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since the cat is out of the bag, no, it's not a typo. it's related to Kardashev but is oriented around the common path most galactic civilizations follow on the path to either senescence (LR8.0) or singularity (LR8.1-4). Each level in LR is effectively unaware of the levels above it, basically because the level above is an Outside Context Problem. Humans are currently LR2 (food security) and approaching LR3 (artifici…

If we're at LR2, and each level is effectively unaware of the levels above it, how do we know what LR3/4/5/6/7/8/9 are or might be? Or do you mean that a civilization at a particular level will always be unaware of civilizations above? That doesn't seem to make sense either; I see no reason why a LR4 civ couldn't have knowledge of a LR5 civ, for example.

Because it's an authorial construct used as a plot device, and thus has only small value of mapping onto the real world.
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