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It's really about the broader lesson, to emphasize that we're just at the beginning of history and that we might benefit from long-term thinking.


Even in passing comments in the 'year of the clock' 02025 to some forum? So the idea is that the computing systems in the YotC 12025 parsing hackernews from a 10000 years prior would experience a "bug" when encountring 4 digit dates?

You know, back in 01999 we were sticking representation of dates into these bit sized 'registers'. Certainly hope by the time we hit 10000 CE "long term thinking" has made significant inroards in the field of information processing ..


The real bug being addressed is not a technical bug but a societal and cultural bug. Writing the 0 in front is a reminder that the present moment is just the beginning and that behavior that benefits us in the short term may cause problems in the long term.




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