From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 16:13:18 MDT
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:25:20PM -0700, Brendan Coffey wrote:
> Sounds like his sentiments boil down to:
>
> 1) Don't be a jerk, you're not that cool.
> 2) It's the journey, not the destination.
> 3) If all your friends jumped off the bridge, would you?
> 4) Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
> 5) Move the hell out of your parent's basement.
> 6) Arrogant pretense makes you sound retarded.
>
> All good advice!
Formulated like that, it sounds a lot like "Dear teenagers". Maybe that
is the deep fear about posthumanity: that it is going to be a teenage
humanity rather than an adult humanity. Of course, the innocence of
childhood humanity is somewhat overrated.
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