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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Oh no, nuclear is so scary, we have to warn our possible descendants 100,000 years in the future even if all cultural continuity is lost because we care so much for the distant future.

    Even if it isn’t that relatively impactful these kinds of monuments are still really cool and whatever experts in culturally independent communication they are getting to do it totally deserve the funding



  • Index funds have been considered safe for a long time, but it relies on market prices being an accurate source of information about how profitable companies are, because you are blindly buying everything. If too much money is invested that way, the signal becomes weaker and more irrational, it may not be guaranteed to always be a good long term bet. If all the biggest companies end up with valuations that are entirely fake, you’re pretty screwed. I have money in an index fund because I think it’s probably going to be fine and safer than other options, but it isn’t right to think of it as a sure thing.