• TheGayDude@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Dude, none of these are gonna be considered “major.” If you were to travel to the year 2500 and asked people about COVID-19 or the war in Ukraine, only huge history nerds would have any idea of what you’re talking about

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      1 year ago

      You mean we’re not still talking about the Cocoliztli epidemic and the Eighty Years’ War?

      You’re setting the bar a little high by putting us 500 years in the future, though. I think things just 100 years or so ago can be considered “major”, and COVID-19 and Ukraine might both make the bill.

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      1 year ago

      I think that the first AGI, which will probably be this decade, will be considered a major historical event by 2500, just like how we still consider the invention of the printing press a major historical event.

      If the Ukraine war ends up escalating into WW3, I think that will count as well, unless we get up to like WWX.

      If David Grusch is right, I think disclosure would make that list.