From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 06:56:03 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> As such, I do not consider you to be half-way through life. You are
> merely finishing your first decade of adult life. Your next decade will
> be like another entire adult life span for you. You will do as much if
> not more in your second "adult life span" than you did in your first.
> By the time you reach 40, you will be ready to take on your third adult
> life span. Your 50s will be your fourth adult life span. Your 60s will
> be your fifth adult life span. With proper diet and modern health care,
> your 70s and 80s will be your sixth and seventh adult life spans. If
> you are long-lived, your 90s and 100s will be your eighth and ninth
> adult life spans. If life-extension techniques really work to get you
> to 120 and beyond, you could see your tenth adult life span and beyond.
What I'd like to say, at this point, is something along the lines of
"I'm going to resend you that email in a billion years and it'll seem
really ironic". But I rather doubt either of us will still be
interested then. One of the ironies of the Singularity is that most
post-Singularity ironies are probably only interesting pre-Singularity.
Nonetheless, I salute my fellow Eldest - the six billion oldest living
minds in the universe, the only entities whose existence predates the
System itself, of whom there are fewer than one to a galaxy - and wish
them all happy birthdays whenever that may be. You can go back to
arguing about the big 3-0 now.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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