The End Isn't Nigh
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The world is not ending soon, and we are likely living through normal but challenging times. People often overestimate the danger of current events because they think their time is the most important or scary. Despite uncertainty and risks like AI or climate change, life has always been insecure, and we are already managing it well by helping each other.
11 Jun 2026
Everything about our situation as humans pushes us to overrate the importance of our own era. Apart from anything else, present-day unknowns feel the scariest, because all previous unknowns eventually resolved themselves into knowns (every prior prediction of the end of the world turned out to be wrong) while future ones haven’t occurred to us yet.
12 Jun 2026
It’s that it’s incredibly hard, and maybe impossible, to escape the distorted perspective that’s been labelled “temporal chauvinism”: the feeling that the time you’re living in now is the most significant or terrifying one ever – simply because it’s the one you happen to be around to experience.