Re: Singularity Blindness

From: Mark Walker (mdwalker@quickclic.net)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 19:02:55 MDT


I think this is mainly cultural
> thing, there has so far not been any training or even need for it. But
> things are changing, and more and more people seem to be able to run
> scenario planning through their heads quickly and efficiently.
>
It would be pleasant to suppose that it is a cultural thing but I am not so
sure. The fact that people from different cultures across the world does not
demonstrate that it is a cultural thing, any more than the fact that people
from different cultures across the world exhibit perfect pitch demonstrates
that perfect pitch is a cultural thing. And even if it is a cultural thing,
it may not be as malleable as we like. The accent one has is a cultural
thing but not completely malleable for most people after a certain age,
similarly we might worry that the current educational system, for the most
part, does not see scenario planning as a form of understanding worth
pursuing. Ideally, I suppose, we should be enrolling our children in
transhumanist kindergartens. What was it that the Jesuits used to say? "Give
me a child until he is 15 and he is mine for life."



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