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Georgia Guidestones - Huge granite stones inscribed with words of advice that the author intended to “guide humanity forward”, destroyed in 2022 (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They didn't seem terribly useful, compared to other long projects.

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

Basically, a freethinker version of the Ten Commandments tablets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The listed weights and dimensions are the most useful things to me. Knowing the approximate weight of a kilogram and length of a meter would be incredibly useful when trying to recreate things you find in records

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Openly advocating genocide and eugenics? Yeah, definitely not what I would call useful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you read "Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity" as eugenics and genocide, I think you might be jumping the gun a bit based on personal biases. Population bottlenecks require you to be very careful about species-wide gene pools. In a population of 10,000, you don't want Cletus reproducing with his first cousin.