"Not knowing if we're at the start of millions of years or the last decades" goes viral
birchlse · x · 2026-09-15
X user birchlse posted: "It's very disorienting to live your life not knowing if you're at the very beginning of millions of years of history or in the last decades of a species about to burn itself out."
The existential musing spread through the AI community via quotes, capturing the current mood of anxiety about technological acceleration and civilizational prospects.
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