Anyone can make themselves comfortable with an idea. The question is what the
instinctive reaction is, and how long it takes thereafter.
I didn't mean to imply that everyone over a certain age would be left out.
Many people on this list like a Singularity. I was simply suggesting that my
generation, or the next one, might be more naturally comfortable with the
idea, that it would have less shock value. In other words, I was saying that
Generation S will go farther... not that "you old fuddy-duddies can't go anywhere".
I've often wondered whether the next generation's concept of the future will
be to the Singularity what the Singularity is to the domes-and-blasters vision
of the previous generations. *There* is a thought that even I find
frightening... because I have no conception, no conception at all, about what
that could be.
-- sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you everything I think I know.