A bit of a meta comment: I love when wikipedia articles are posted to HN, I always click on them as I know they will be interesting. On one of the recent wikipedia article posts (Glacier Mice I believe) someone commented that there should be a bluesky bot that collects and posts these so I (well Claude..) made one!
It puts everything in perspective, although not sure if the best one, can be overwhelming and ie many religious people tune out since there are no clear answers they were conditioned from childhood to expect, its hard to find god in endless universe with protons decayed for example.
Its easy to feel that everything is meaningless on long/large enough scale, even if we decide to annihilate Earth, or whole Solar system, or entire Milky way somehow. Universe will continue its dance from sub-quarks to largest filaments of galaxies unaffected and end state is as inevitable as the fact that tomorrow will happen.
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A bit of a meta comment: I love when wikipedia articles are posted to HN, I always click on them as I know they will be interesting. On one of the recent wikipedia article posts (Glacier Mice I believe) someone commented that there should be a bluesky bot that collects and posts these so I (well Claude..) made one!
https://bsky.app/profile/hnwiki.bsky.social
Check it out!
This article is the first post, and if there is 48 hours with no posts, then one from the archives is posted.
this is my favorite Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
It puts everything in perspective, although not sure if the best one, can be overwhelming and ie many religious people tune out since there are no clear answers they were conditioned from childhood to expect, its hard to find god in endless universe with protons decayed for example.
Its easy to feel that everything is meaningless on long/large enough scale, even if we decide to annihilate Earth, or whole Solar system, or entire Milky way somehow. Universe will continue its dance from sub-quarks to largest filaments of galaxies unaffected and end state is as inevitable as the fact that tomorrow will happen.
A dramatic rendition of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
Thank you for the recommendation! Once started, I just couldn't stop watching it.
I don't want to spam, but I built this during the pandemic (pre ai). Maybe this is useful to you:
https://www.mostdiscussed.com/
There is also a Mastodon bridge via Mastofeed:
https://mastodon.social/@MostDiscussed
Related: https://www.orangecrumbs.com (nice weekly summary of top wikipedia posts on HN)