On Future

[moriarty]

I spend a lot of time thinking about the future

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[thenightiscold]

I often wonder about the future, too. It seems very bleak to me. I'm glad that I'm not going to be around in a hundred years to see how things turn out. I'm already nervous to see what the world is like when I'm in my middle ages. It's also nerve-wracking, too, that even some scientists who believe in the singularity are scared or wary about the future. It's still hard for me to completely understand, but it's very possible.

Like you said, I think that's why everyone thinks in the short term. It at least makes me feel a little better about the state of the world when I think about my own lone life than the future of mankind.

[moriarty]

Yeah. It is bleak, I struggle to get any comfort out of the idea of the "singularity" myself - so I pretty much hope it doesn't happen. The idea feels too neat to me anyway - the one thing you can say about life is that it's messy ;)

[mulgaun]

I sat and typed a response to this easily three times the length of your post ... than deleted it.

Your gratitude upon acknowledging my beneficence will resound eternally.

[moriarty]

On the contrary, I hate to see such effort wasted. But then, maybe it was three times as rambly, and little actual effort. I will never know ;)

Honestly, the post felt much longer than it is while I was writing it.

[mulgaun]

It depends on how much patience you have for spiritual pragmatism.

[mulgaun]

Is this the group that sells the exorbitantly priced language course software programs? The ones that do not have a course on how to teach Americans to speak English?

[moriarty]

I... doubt it. But I haven't specifically looked for language courses.

[mulgaun]

Bu "this", I meant the Rosetta Project, of course.