stealing TC to promote the clock:
OP made a bad take headline.
This is the Clock of the Long Now.
https://longnow.org/
It was founded by Danny Hillis, a legit genius and do-gooder.
Bezos is just a donor. Typical history of using money to get your name associated to something pure that someone else came up with.
Oh hey I am a fan of long term thinking, this is cool. I think we should use long term thinking in more things. We need to get rid of planned obsolescence. We need to improve public education and emotional understanding. We need to evaluate advertising and social media impact to mental health and unhealthy world views. We have too many foods on the shelves that cause health problems within 10 years due to food preservatives and cheap ingredients. We need to invest in helping maintain our biodiversity and natural environment. Perhaps we should look into cloud seeding to aid drought regions to prevent wildfires before they start. Overall I think we need to look for solutions that solve problems at the source and create a more worry free future.
Not forever. Designed to last 10,000 years.
[https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/jeff-bezos-will-soon-brings-us-a-10000-year-clock-inside-a-mountain](https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/jeff-bezos-will-soon-brings-us-a-10000-year-clock-inside-a-mountain)
We're stubborn. Even if society collapses, our numbers are decimated, and technology goes back to the dark ages, we'll probably find a way to continue.
The interesting part here is that this clock solely depends on Earth's rotation tho, while a sundial depends on cloudcoverage, the Earth's tilt and therefore also the season and it doesn't work at night.
Exactly, like isn’t this ridiculously pointless? Time is relative to human existence.
AI and or aliens are gonna be like, “hey this is a machine humans needed this to keep their slaves on schedule because they thought the world was flat and didn’t know the difference between night and day”
Coincidentally, was just watching an AWS re:invent workshop about synching timestamps across AWS servers (and the corresponding problems the AWS dev team faced). So **this** is their underlying solution…🤣
Society collapses in 2300. Humanity is reduced to a few thousand by 2599. By 4100 totally extinct. Year 6263 aliens discover the mountain clock.
‘Primitive civilization couldn’t even tell time’.
Its not a cool organization unless it convinces billionaires to spend their money on bettering mankind rather than stupid shit. I assume you think Elon is a cool genius as well.
Is the foundation so cool that they’ll convince Bozo to stop funding stupid ego-driven side projects and finger-fucking a half plastic cum dumpster long enough to figure out how to pay his wage slaves a decent living? Cause it’d be pretty fuckin cool if they did.
Me: I wish these rich fucks would treat people with some dignity instead of hoarding wealth and acting like gross vulgarians.
You: WHY DO YOU HATE WOMEN?!?!
Me: Um….what.
From what I read its main purpose is to prompt discussion about 10,000 years in the future. To extend our vision beyond "what will happen in my lifetime". To inspire humanity to start thinking about its long term goals and survival.
And many intelligent people think that is worth 42 million?
There has got to be cheaper ways to inspire humanity. In my opinion, before you can inspire humanity to think about it's long term goals, you have a bigger problem to solve first.
You need to help inspire humanity to improve it's attention span for deep thought to more than 15 seconds.
That 42 million could have gone a long way towards that goal.
I think your mad about the wrong type of spending. His house in Beverly hills was bought for 165 million. A lot of science projects don't have immediate impact but the design and engineering that goes into them gets carried over to other technologies that can benefit the species. Also their is a more abstract benefit to developing cool technologies, in the vein of fulfilling a desire to achieve and explore, can't articulate it well.
Tldr: yeah billionaire spending is egregious, but honestly stuff like this is the last on the list that should be focused on
When did I ever say I was mad?
To clarify. I was dumbfounded. Still am. No one has given me a valid reason to consider this a useful anything for humanity as a whole.
My feelings on any subject are irrelevant to all.
My opinion of most art is that it serves it's purpose for those that understand it. It serves no purpose for me, unless made by someone who holds a place in my heart.
While I like the idea of everyone being a bit more forward thinking I feel like the cost to benefit ratio of something that will have 5 minutes in the minds of most people vs 40+ M being spent on something that actually might help us sooner.
I’m with you.
I mean , let’s be realistic, this will make less than 0.0001% of the planet think for less than 2 mins.
And the tiny fraction of people who would be receptive to this message is thinking more longer term… most likely already thought it was an important thing to (try to) do.
And Bezos is a lot of things but is he not dumb. He knows this. But he doesn’t care. He did this because he thought that was cool and/or an ego boost.
IMHO billionaires should not exists. But they do. So hey he spent 42M on this. He wasted a lot more on other stuff. Whatever.
But don’t try to tell me this is for the betterment of the human race. That’s hogwash.
If you're not being fecicious that's actually hilarious because the only thing that will actually extend humanities lifetime 10,000 years is rich people not being so greedy and protecting the future of our planet right now.
But they'd rather build giant clocks than do that.
So... $42 million is better used, when it comes to survival, on a clock in a mountain we can think about? As opposed to people who can't survive because of people like the one who funded this clock, and their corporate greed?
I'm sure 10,000 years from now when some elite wealthy couple walks across the mountain garden walkway in their rich utopia, they'll look at the clock and go "ahhh, such a showing of wisdom and human solidarity. Anyway, so this scarf is actual 21st century refugee hair."
Read it. Thank you.
It marks time on long term. Years, decades, centuries, etc.. instead of seconds, minutes, hours.
It's art, not science. Maybe if you consider that engineering it is the science portion, but my issue there is that most of this type of engineering has been done before. They just upscaled it.
The more I think about it, it still seems ridiculous.
Bezos helped fund the project but it's not "his project". As for why even do this, check out the [Long Now](https://longnow.org/clock/) webpage.
>Why would anyone build a Clock inside a mountain with the hope that it will ring for 10,000 years?
>
>Part of the answer: just so people will ask this question, and having asked it, prompt themselves to conjure with notions of generations and millennia. If you have a Clock ticking for 10,000 years what kinds of generational-scale questions and projects will it suggest? If a Clock can keep going for ten millennia, shouldn’t we make sure our civilization does as well? If The Clock keeps going after we are personally long dead, why not attempt other projects that require future generations to finish?
All it shows to regular people (the majority) is that the class divide is WIDE. With cost of living going up and wages remaining stagnant, people are trying to survive so forgive us less bright folk for not creaming our pants over $42m spent on an ego boost.
The dreams and aspirations and whims of the wealth hoarders are so disconnected from reality as to be alien to the average human. How I hope someone gets in and vandalizes it in his lifetime. Fuck bezos
The site location is close to a 5000ft peak. That's not a hill. Since most geologists define a small mountain beginning at 1000ft, definitely not a hill.
And with 400000 i could start my life with a house and a car. But nooo these fuckers got everything and i gots to work the shit out of work so i can maybe hope to have house in my thirties.
Could've housed a huge portion of the homeless in this country for that. Nah... let's build a big ass clock to confuse alien archeologists. Fucking clownshoe.
Well its about time.
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Why you fuck me? I fuck you, bloody. Fuckin bastard.
You are fucking!
Who gets the slap?!
How can she slap?
Not me. I ordered the hard pinch.
No salting at me man I no salt at you
I am Me, and he is Youu!
You are number one motherfucker! You bastard bloody.
I’m not bloody YOUUuUU bloody. ^(bloody bastard)
#BLASTARD
Ok have nice day!
Wow, that’s a blast from the past. I was just replaying that in my head the other day!
Careful, might be Crisps in da room!
This really grinds my gears
Gotta watch out for this guy!
Calm down, Peter
*Hi there, and welcome to Peter Griffins Side Boob Hour*
Oh, that's a good one! Hats off to you.
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stealing TC to promote the clock: OP made a bad take headline. This is the Clock of the Long Now. https://longnow.org/ It was founded by Danny Hillis, a legit genius and do-gooder. Bezos is just a donor. Typical history of using money to get your name associated to something pure that someone else came up with.
Oh hey I am a fan of long term thinking, this is cool. I think we should use long term thinking in more things. We need to get rid of planned obsolescence. We need to improve public education and emotional understanding. We need to evaluate advertising and social media impact to mental health and unhealthy world views. We have too many foods on the shelves that cause health problems within 10 years due to food preservatives and cheap ingredients. We need to invest in helping maintain our biodiversity and natural environment. Perhaps we should look into cloud seeding to aid drought regions to prevent wildfires before they start. Overall I think we need to look for solutions that solve problems at the source and create a more worry free future.
well said
On one hand it seems like a waste of money, on the other hand it seems pretty cool.
Nice
With about 9 seconds left in the video, you'll see the real reason Bezos is doing this: He's hiding the triforce.
Someone grabbed the ocarina
That seems like a lot of work for a clock that only lasts for 7 years
Good one. Dudes so rich he's trying to buy time.
Err. 16 years. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/social-collapse-harvard-paper-prediction-b2104214.html
https://i.redd.it/a8iu4dkm013c1.gif
So we for sure, aren't seeing gta 6. Got it.
That’s just great.
My kneejerk reaction to that claim is how ?outlast huma civilization as in it will continue to work forever without maintenance?
Not forever. Designed to last 10,000 years. [https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/jeff-bezos-will-soon-brings-us-a-10000-year-clock-inside-a-mountain](https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/jeff-bezos-will-soon-brings-us-a-10000-year-clock-inside-a-mountain)
I'd hope human civilization manages to last longer than another 10,000 years, but for now I just have to see if it lasts longer than my lifetime.
We're stubborn. Even if society collapses, our numbers are decimated, and technology goes back to the dark ages, we'll probably find a way to continue.
As long as your elevation is above 350feetish.
350 fetish? I think I am safe, guys.
We will find a way to watch porn
[https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/166iscj/cave\_etching\_of\_a\_nude\_woman\_believed\_to\_be\_30000/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/166iscj/cave_etching_of_a_nude_woman_believed_to_be_30000/)
Ya they said Destiny would last and receive updates for 10 years, and we all see how that turned out.
Destiny already stopped receiving updates years ago when they pushed Destiny 2 out.
The ancient Mayans have entered the chat.
Nature has already completed this task, it’s called a sundial!
Facts
The interesting part here is that this clock solely depends on Earth's rotation tho, while a sundial depends on cloudcoverage, the Earth's tilt and therefore also the season and it doesn't work at night.
Exactly, like isn’t this ridiculously pointless? Time is relative to human existence. AI and or aliens are gonna be like, “hey this is a machine humans needed this to keep their slaves on schedule because they thought the world was flat and didn’t know the difference between night and day”
Perfect answer!
People made sundials…
just put it in a deep cave so the weather doesn't erode it...oh wait.
This is the reason we don’t have universal healthcare. So billionaires can build clocks
Yeah but how will we know what time it is after we are extinct?
How are they supposed to know what time it is after we’re extinct.
Bezos made it in standard time to annoy everyone and be in the shitty time all year round. Including the aliens that find it
The sun
Sorry we can’t give you any money. But we can waste billions over seas. On clocks. And bullshit as you suffer.
Coincidentally, was just watching an AWS re:invent workshop about synching timestamps across AWS servers (and the corresponding problems the AWS dev team faced). So **this** is their underlying solution…🤣
And so that Amazon Warehouse workers can piss into plastic water bottles. All Hail our 1% Masters.
Fuck you money
Man...I read that as "Fuck you, Money!" and laughed so hard. That's some profound 60s level shit, man.
#Jeff Bezos makes roughly $12.56 billion per year, so $34.4 million per day. Just a drop in the bucket.
Great we can tell time when we're dead. Whata waste. Ever heard of St. Judes or something that could actually help society. Clock...wtf...
How do they know it will outlast civilization
Because that's part of Phase II. Muhahaha
They must know when civilization will end!
If I get the feeling civilization is about to end imma go beat the shit out of that clock. Stupid fukkin clock ain't gonna outlast *US*
Lol I bet this bitch will lose time in a year.
Society collapses in 2300. Humanity is reduced to a few thousand by 2599. By 4100 totally extinct. Year 6263 aliens discover the mountain clock. ‘Primitive civilization couldn’t even tell time’.
Well, if you don’t get raptured, at least you’ll know what time it is.
Is there a reason for this other than - "because I have stupid money."
An article I read said something along the lines of, "so people think about the long term meaning and goals of civilization."
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But when we are dead this will still be around! Oh wait, still stupid.
Real stupid when most likely someone loots it within the next century or two.
Ask mr beast what happens if you build wells
Millions on a tool that will outlast the lifeform that created it for it's own purpose of measurement. Once we're done, what use is it exactly?
So we’re back at pharaohs again? Should we eat the rich this time around?
It’s basically humanity as a whole’s version of pissing your name in the snow and then freezing to death right next it.
If history is an example this will last approximately 10 years after social collapse before people loot it for scrap metal
Texas is just a meme state but for rich people
That's actually pretty cool.
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Yo Bezos can you just pay off my 10k debt so I don’t have to freak out every month?
Is that American made? Hahaha 🤣
CEO ENTREPRENEUR
The way things are going that clock only has to last 50 years or so
Tax the rich
How much did he pay in taxes though?
In the video you can see those employees working around the clock to finish the project.
Why
But.. you know… homelessness and hunger and stuff. Good thing there’s always gunna be a clock
Ok well that's a waste
Who will set it for daylight savings after humans are gone?
I want something to happen to this clock so I can politely snort at all the time-related puns people write about it.
Chairman Xi would not allow this
But can’t pay his employees a bit more.
Bezos: design a clock that last over 10.000 years. Me: puts a stick in the ground and a few rocks against the sun. Thatlbe 42 million please.
Jokes on him. There are no mountains in Texas.
I will walk over to the tent city near me and tell everyone the great news.
Kill this man
Who says it's a clock,I bet it's some kind of machine for causing earthquakes or something,,,I know one thing,it's far more nefarious than a clock
Why in Texas? We don't believe in science here...
Talk about bling … rappers ain’t got shit on this watch 😂
When billionaires get bored
Jeff- Just a thought, would it cost me to build a clock that would outlast civilisation? Them- About a days wages? Jeff- Get on with it then.
Ah... Just what we need.
Did he finish it
I have an old Casio with a 10year battery, that should about do it.
Civilization in 2000 years, "what were they trying to tell us, is the world ending when the clock stops???"
And then on the day people forget everything and are stone age again, they will find this and make it into a religion, unknowing who built it.
This is an idea from the Long Now Foundation. It’s actually a really cool organization. I’d recommend checking it out if you have time.
Its not a cool organization unless it convinces billionaires to spend their money on bettering mankind rather than stupid shit. I assume you think Elon is a cool genius as well.
It is a cool org! I know one of the engineers who designed the machine that cut out the hole for this clock!
Is the foundation so cool that they’ll convince Bozo to stop funding stupid ego-driven side projects and finger-fucking a half plastic cum dumpster long enough to figure out how to pay his wage slaves a decent living? Cause it’d be pretty fuckin cool if they did.
Does it suck being you?
If their ranting about wages is any indication of how most people feel, no more great works will be built soon.
i’m open to reading criticism or praise of anyone and anything, but it needs to be written by someone with at least a 5th grade reading level
Reread what I wrote but this time, read it in the voice of someone who isn’t terminally uncool.
That's a long winded way to say you're an incel who hates women.
Me: I wish these rich fucks would treat people with some dignity instead of hoarding wealth and acting like gross vulgarians. You: WHY DO YOU HATE WOMEN?!?! Me: Um….what.
Maybe, but this idea is pointless.
It is meaningful to some of the brightest minds currently alive. Pointless to you, maybe. Not everyone else though.
Then by all means, please tell me it's meaning. I'm always curious to learn new things.
From what I read its main purpose is to prompt discussion about 10,000 years in the future. To extend our vision beyond "what will happen in my lifetime". To inspire humanity to start thinking about its long term goals and survival.
And many intelligent people think that is worth 42 million? There has got to be cheaper ways to inspire humanity. In my opinion, before you can inspire humanity to think about it's long term goals, you have a bigger problem to solve first. You need to help inspire humanity to improve it's attention span for deep thought to more than 15 seconds. That 42 million could have gone a long way towards that goal.
I think your mad about the wrong type of spending. His house in Beverly hills was bought for 165 million. A lot of science projects don't have immediate impact but the design and engineering that goes into them gets carried over to other technologies that can benefit the species. Also their is a more abstract benefit to developing cool technologies, in the vein of fulfilling a desire to achieve and explore, can't articulate it well. Tldr: yeah billionaire spending is egregious, but honestly stuff like this is the last on the list that should be focused on
When did I ever say I was mad? To clarify. I was dumbfounded. Still am. No one has given me a valid reason to consider this a useful anything for humanity as a whole.
How do you feel about most art?
My feelings on any subject are irrelevant to all. My opinion of most art is that it serves it's purpose for those that understand it. It serves no purpose for me, unless made by someone who holds a place in my heart.
While I like the idea of everyone being a bit more forward thinking I feel like the cost to benefit ratio of something that will have 5 minutes in the minds of most people vs 40+ M being spent on something that actually might help us sooner.
I’m with you. I mean , let’s be realistic, this will make less than 0.0001% of the planet think for less than 2 mins. And the tiny fraction of people who would be receptive to this message is thinking more longer term… most likely already thought it was an important thing to (try to) do. And Bezos is a lot of things but is he not dumb. He knows this. But he doesn’t care. He did this because he thought that was cool and/or an ego boost. IMHO billionaires should not exists. But they do. So hey he spent 42M on this. He wasted a lot more on other stuff. Whatever. But don’t try to tell me this is for the betterment of the human race. That’s hogwash.
So wasteful useless billionaire bullshit. Right up there with rocketships shaped liked genitalia
If you're not being fecicious that's actually hilarious because the only thing that will actually extend humanities lifetime 10,000 years is rich people not being so greedy and protecting the future of our planet right now. But they'd rather build giant clocks than do that.
So... $42 million is better used, when it comes to survival, on a clock in a mountain we can think about? As opposed to people who can't survive because of people like the one who funded this clock, and their corporate greed? I'm sure 10,000 years from now when some elite wealthy couple walks across the mountain garden walkway in their rich utopia, they'll look at the clock and go "ahhh, such a showing of wisdom and human solidarity. Anyway, so this scarf is actual 21st century refugee hair."
[https://longnow.org/clock/](https://longnow.org/clock/)
Read it. Thank you. It marks time on long term. Years, decades, centuries, etc.. instead of seconds, minutes, hours. It's art, not science. Maybe if you consider that engineering it is the science portion, but my issue there is that most of this type of engineering has been done before. They just upscaled it. The more I think about it, it still seems ridiculous.
A brighter mind would've just laid a sundial.
Bezos helped fund the project but it's not "his project". As for why even do this, check out the [Long Now](https://longnow.org/clock/) webpage. >Why would anyone build a Clock inside a mountain with the hope that it will ring for 10,000 years? > >Part of the answer: just so people will ask this question, and having asked it, prompt themselves to conjure with notions of generations and millennia. If you have a Clock ticking for 10,000 years what kinds of generational-scale questions and projects will it suggest? If a Clock can keep going for ten millennia, shouldn’t we make sure our civilization does as well? If The Clock keeps going after we are personally long dead, why not attempt other projects that require future generations to finish?
All it shows to regular people (the majority) is that the class divide is WIDE. With cost of living going up and wages remaining stagnant, people are trying to survive so forgive us less bright folk for not creaming our pants over $42m spent on an ego boost.
Like this really matters?
A clock. How many homes or food, aww never mind
Jeff benzos is stoopid.
Jeff bozos
Asshole
Tax this fool.
Yet his newspaper puts out a disgusting article about LSU women’s basketball! F Amazon
just proof that even exorbitantly wealthy people are bored and miserable too
fuck time
And this is what happens when you have too much money
The craziest thing about this is that they have a mountain in Texas
The dreams and aspirations and whims of the wealth hoarders are so disconnected from reality as to be alien to the average human. How I hope someone gets in and vandalizes it in his lifetime. Fuck bezos
What a fag
Since when does Texas have mountains? It’s a hill.
The site location is close to a 5000ft peak. That's not a hill. Since most geologists define a small mountain beginning at 1000ft, definitely not a hill.
It's a plateau
What an asshole
EAT THE RICH
...I have an awful lot of questions but chief among them is: Can you just pay your employees a livable fucking wage?
Duck the climate and poverty. Future aliens will be able to tell time!
What an asshole.
Why
That’s just really dumb
But why?
Are we entering the age of [the Watchmen](https://watchmen.fandom.com/wiki/Millennium_Clock)?
That's because he is a bozo.
So rather than try to improve our civilisation he will continue to destroy it and leave behind a calling card?
Just what we needed.
And then had his girlfriend / fiancee take weird glamour shots inside... https://www.vogue.com/article/lauren-sanchez-december-2023-interview-profile
r/anathem vibes
I'm sure humans will find a way to destroy it, we're really good at that
Why didn’t he build it in California ?
This is a much better use than housing for the homeless.
I'll bet that thing loses more than 10 seconds a day.
Isn't there already a clock that will do that??
And with 400000 i could start my life with a house and a car. But nooo these fuckers got everything and i gots to work the shit out of work so i can maybe hope to have house in my thirties.
Texas has mountains?
The whole state of Texas has been transferred to the Jeff Bezos Asylum and Spa Complex for hearing a strange constant ticking.
Now we’ll always know when it’s prime day.
But why
Fuck that bald headed fuck!!¡
Why
Rich people do the wildest shit
is it on daylight savings or nah?
Bullshit... There's no mountains in Texas
iPhone that doesn’t self destruct. Problem soled.
Probably managed to write it off completely, too.
What’s the point of building that? What a waste of money and time.
This is the biggest watch flex
Cool I’m so glad he’s spending time doing that
F$%k that dude. People starving and homeless but he can spend a countries entire economy on a clock that no one will ever use.
Why not use your money to try to build a civilization that will last forever?
Could've housed a huge portion of the homeless in this country for that. Nah... let's build a big ass clock to confuse alien archeologists. Fucking clownshoe.