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1%/year over 300 years is nearly a 20-fold improvement.

I'm not sure it makes sense to assume steady incremental growth over such long time frames. I mentioned 1%/yr when considering improvements over the last 3 decades.

You may be right that we have currently reached the pinnacle of technology

This is not a claim I've made.



Either you believe technological progress will make building dikes/etc easier in 200-300 years, or you don't. Which is it?




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