The human can't yet comprehend the vastness of the universe, even after surviving for 300k years. 

The human can't comprehend the vastness of the internet, even after surviving for 45years.

this made me thinking —  things are being built up over centuries, while each new person is born with 0 knowledge. the progress right now is increasing exponentially, but that 0 doesn’t change. this explains why we are still such idiots with golden hammers.

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Related notion: Have you ever thought of death as a “design pattern”? 

I find this fascinating - evolution, while not needing to, mostly chooses to reboot the system through finite lifespans and birth resets. 

And thats a pattern that gets our artificial technical system more robust too, “death before confusion” as the creator of Erlang once quipped, which ironically has instances that haven’t been rebooted for more than 20 years.