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Since we don't know what being "young" and healthy for 200 years is like, the assumption isn't false. I'd prefer to call it unverified. I never said that it's
by m_eiman 17y ago
Since we don't know what being "young" and healthy for 200 years is like, the assumption isn't false. I'd prefer to call it unverified.
I never said that it's bad to be stuck in your ways: what I said (or tried to say) was that not being stuck in your ways makes it easier for you to come up with novel solutions to problems.
Having a certain amount of momentum in society is definately a good thing, but having too much of it means that society will respond too slowly to a changing environment. In my opinion, our current momentum doesn't make us too volatile. That's just my opinion, though, but that might just be a reflection of me being fairly young.
- jerf 17y ago"In my opinion, our current momentum doesn't make us too volatile. That's just my opinion, though, but that might just be a reflection of me being fairly young." I'm only 30 myself, which definitely moves me out of the flush of 18-24 but hardly qualifies me as an old fart. I sometimes think that going a bit slower could be helpful to society, but the truth is that we don't have forever to dilly-dally where we are. If we're going to win the sustainability race with the high-technology solution [1], we need to get there before the resources run out. [1] http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2417 http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2417