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Sarogo Gotye's avatar

Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, and Sparta/Ancient Greece are about equal in interest to the Renaissance American civil war and WW1 judging by google trends. Middle ages and ww2 are 3 an 10 times more popular. Napoleonic wars and dark ages and battle of agincourt are a sixth as popular. Seems more like there's a bunch of interest placed in a bunch of times. And we aren't sure how popular recent events will be in a century or 2. Don't get me wrong little interest pre writing , and this is comparing eras wars and battles, but it seems random.

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Would honestly be interesting to get an interest per year metric. However the simulation argument works even if you're the only concious being, or we're in a multiplayer game stocked with people who just wanted to forget their lives for a day. Then it's just % time spent playing video games or number of characters made if the probability is per independent memory, rather then observer moments. And yeah people would prefer more interesting stuff to do, but we don't know what people will find interesting in the future.If we use how people use video games, movies , books or live their lives as an analogy; yeah some people are only going to want to be millionaires or billionaires, some people are going to want to be a general in a war,or soldiers in a war if they're thrill seekers/masochists, people might only want to be a king or some sort of leader. However there's also people who idealise a simple life, some people like a challenge or want to earn becoming wealthy.

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