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Don't you think that's kind of a reach? I feel like you could just as easily guess that the smartest people of 1000 years ago, given an extra couple hundred ye
by anoonmoose 11y ago
Don't you think that's kind of a reach? I feel like you could just as easily guess that the smartest people of 1000 years ago, given an extra couple hundred years of lifetime, would have come up with computers way before we did.
Edit: Not that I consider either answer particularly likely; I have no idea what would happen.
- fchollet 11y agoMost people's ideas and worldview get basically frozen in time when they reach 25. Maybe not everyone, but a large enough majority that a death-free society would be effectively stagnant, socially and technologically.
- xixixao 11y ago> technologically Seems many invent at an old age. Also seems that some few are responsible for great many breakthroughs, only stopping at their death beds...
- Turing_Machine 11y ago"Most people's ideas and worldview get basically frozen in time when they reach 25." Not by choice, in most cases. N.B. There's also a lot of research on restoring neural plasticity.
- drcross 11y agoThat's quite an assumption. I'm guessing you are young.