Oddbean new post about login | logout Thinking that electronic communications stands the test of time is ignorance of history and knowing what actually stands the test of time. Shitpost using stone and pottery.
My baseline scenario is that fragments will survive, but be lost in oscure places for a long time, like manuscripts and archives from antiquity. An antiquity that itself was built on surviving fragments from past civilizations, now even more lost to us than it was to them.