5000 BC Longtermist Moke: Hoarding Stone Tools for Descendants
banteg · x · 2026-09-19
A popular AI-circle meme imagines a longtermist from 5000 BC advocating massive stone-tool caches to boost descendants' survival odds, with the Bronze Age replying 'lol. lmao'. It's a pointed jab at AI longtermism: allocating today's resources for far-future risks can look absurd in any era.
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