Comment on Anon thinks about human history

• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It did, we were just in the boring part of the exponential curve where it’s basically flat

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    and we will currently be in the flat part compared to the next few thousand years (at least if humanity survives until then)

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• nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Cause no steam engines or copper wires or antibiotics. Hadn’t even invented metalworking afaik.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    They should have just googled it

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    • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      why hadn’t they invented bootstraps to pick themselves up by.

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    • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You’re old, they should’ve asked ChatGPT

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• KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Humans just barely survived during most of our history.
  Then a warming of the climate made agriculture possible, which lead to a surplus of food that could be used to feed people who were doing something other than gathering food.
  Those people invented writing and that made real technological progress possible for the first time.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Evolution.

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