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Eternal recurrence and future of human civization
`5:10:15`
... and we had the lunch, and we were like...
`5:10:20`
This is rivaling the best tasting restaurants-... I've ever been to in my life, and I've gone to Noma a couple of times and tried what there is to try, and this is right up there.
`5:10:36`
Well, I think there's a lot of good options in Copenhagen, but actually I'll pick a place in Spain. So there is this place in Marbella called Puente Romano. It's a hotel, and down by the beach, they have this beach restaurant with fresh seafood. Unbelievably delicious. I'm trying to remember what it's called, but yeah, if you look it up, the beach seafood place at Puente Romano is incredible.
`5:11:18`
I mean, the ambiance certainly helps, but I think my taste buds are also just-
`5:11:24`
It's just really good food. Because for ex- that cafeteria, it is, there's a lot of people. Like, I wouldn't rate it as like, oh my God, this is just a place I want to sit for two hours. But the food is so delicious.
`5:12:04`
A thousand years from now? Man, I'm having trouble predicting 12 months from now.
`5:12:11`
Oh, I'm gonna bet on optimism. I'm gonna bet on a multi-planetary species. I'm gonna bet that Elon gets that rocket to Mars, and we figure out how to bend space-time and discover some wormholes or, or something.
`5:12:35`
I mean, that was actually one of my favorite episodes of Black Mirror, the one where they get uploaded to the 1980s sea town somewhere. And I just thought like, wow, this is both such a dark moment, yet also so beautiful in the shared recognition that, like, the '80s were actually kind of amazing. Like, I don't have a lot of nostalgia for many moments, but I do have nostalgia for the '80s.