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DHH · 2026-08-26 · source ↗ · whole document (17)

Eternal recurrence and future of human civization

`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.

`5:13:01`

And they say something about, like, whatever place and time you were in, the music you were listening to when you were 12 or-... or 14, 15, something like that, that's what's gonna stick with you. Like, no, I was only, I got to be 10 in the '80s. So this was my early childhood, and I still have an unbelievably fond affiliation with the '80s. So if I'm gonna be uploaded to the sky-