No worries, Jim! Feel free to ask questions like this any time.
I would model the impact of the very 1st Christianity-spreaders as speeding up some changes that would happen anyway a few decades to a century later. I guess most of their impact was before the year 200. The answer for me does not depend on whether one accounts for only humans, or all potential beings, or whether Christianity lasts 3 k or 3 M years. The theory of relativity could remain relevant for centuries (even if as an approximation), but I guess Albert Einstein still only accelerated the knowledge about it by a few years to decades. Both the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 only affected real gross world product (GWP) for 3 years or so (approximate time until returning to the original trajectory).
You may be interested in my chat with Matthew Adelstein. We discussed my scepticism about longtermism.
No worries, Jim! Feel free to ask questions like this any time.
I would model the impact of the very 1st Christianity-spreaders as speeding up some changes that would happen anyway a few decades to a century later. I guess most of their impact was before the year 200. The answer for me does not depend on whether one accounts for only humans, or all potential beings, or whether Christianity lasts 3 k or 3 M years. The theory of relativity could remain relevant for centuries (even if as an approximation), but I guess Albert Einstein still only accelerated the knowledge about it by a few years to decades. Both the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 only affected real gross world product (GWP) for 3 years or so (approximate time until returning to the original trajectory).
You may be interested in my chat with Matthew Adelstein. We discussed my scepticism about longtermism.