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Billion-Year Human Species History

Description

A speculative history traces humanity through eighteen distinct species over two billion years, each rising and falling, testing whether any lessons persist across evolutionary timescales.

Real-World Relevance

THE foundational text for deep-future speculation. Models longtermist thinking at its most extreme: what does human responsibility look like when measured in billions of years?

Classification

Domains: Existential Risk and Civilizational CollapseBiotechnology and Genetic EngineeringGovernance and Political Systems

Scenario Types: Prediction / ExtrapolationThought experiment / What-if

Outcomes: Ambiguous / MixedTransformative

Tags: deep-futurespecies-successionbillion-year-history

Stories (4)

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