[extropy-chat] Transhumanism and non-gender roles

Dirk Bruere dirk at neopax.com
Wed Dec 3 01:01:00 UTC 2003


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> --- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> > And there's one other factor - one that I'm
> > beginning to experience.
> > It is the 'seen it all' syndrome where fewer and
> > fewer things hold any
> > novelty.
>
> Would not a good cure for that be to make or seek out
> new things?  An elder of the 80s would surely have

I do, which makes the problem more acute - not less.

> found some novelty in the World Wide Web during the
> 90s (assuming said elder was willing to be exposed to
> it).  Likewise, one who believes they have experienced

To some extent, but almost all technologies simply enable one to do existing
things faster or easier.
I'm not bored by the Net, any more than I'm bored by a screwdriver.
It's just another tool.

> everything could take a crack at designing, say, a
> nanotech assembler to leave a grand legacy.  (If one
> has experienced *everything*, this should be simple -
> but, of course, it won't be since there are ways of
> thinking and fields of knowledge one has not truly
> experienced.)

I've been an engineer for 25years and I'm *bored* by it now.
That includes nanotech, after the first few 'gee whizz' minutes of reading
about some new innovation.

> There's always more to learn and do, although one
> might become tired of it and start justifying that
> everything out there is all the same.

Depends what you mean by 'new'.
Every program I've ever written has been 'new'.
That kind of 'new' is now tedious.


Dirk

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