That would actually suck. A lot.Speaker to Animals wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:28 amGloryofGreece wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:03 amIts absurd to tell kids not to rely on older people. You have to survive to the singularity for there to be a singularity or some transhumanism event to take place, no? And contextualizing history/society has a function all in itself as well.Speaker to Animals wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:07 amJust looking him up a bit, his idea of looking for the connection between biology and history interests me.
I think his main problem here rests in the fact that he really doesn't understand the technology. He gets how technology impacts human society, but I don't think he understands technology itself enough to make good recommendations to kids. For instance, "don't learn C++" because some other language might replace it strikes me as rather silly. It's not as if the skills you pick up learning C++ are non-transferable. Programming languages are not like natural languages and it's not like when your VHS tapes became fucking pointless.
The singularity will not come from machines. It will come when we eradicate aging and death by old age.
If we aren't on other planets by then, we'd go extinct pretty quickly.