[extropy-chat] Boredom in old age

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> 
> However, I think the enthusiasm of youth is automatic because things are new
> and different.  Transhumanism used to be new and different.  But after being
> on these lists for over a decade, there aren't very many new ideas going
> around.  Older people also feel like they are running out of time.  Ten
> years ago, people were predicting the singularity, moon bases and
> immortality in a decade or two.  Now that we are half way there, the goals
> don't seem any closer, yet time is running out.

I wish I knew what I was doing right that everyone else seems to be doing 
so wrong.  The problem is that trying to follow my lead doesn't seem to 
help people, either - or helps only insofar as they are moved to study 
tractable interesting subjects.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence