“Anything invented before u were born is taken for granted, anything in your 20s is new exciting and you can probably make a living in it, anything invented after your 40th bday is wrong and against the natural order”

“Anything invented before u were born is taken for granted, anything in your 20s is new exciting and you can probably make a living in it, anything invented after your 40th bday is wrong and against the natural order”

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That’s fascinating to me, because Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach is one of two books that profoundly changed my outlook on life more than two decades ago; the other being Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines.

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Sure, if you're just an average person, you might not understand everything in this book - but when you're done reading, you won't be an average person any more”.

I was motivated to read GEB because of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s superlative recommendation of it: “It is saddening to contemplate that every day, 150,000 humans die without reading what is indisputably one of the greatest achievements of our species. Don't let it happen to you. […]

The former because it sparkled with intelligence and drew unexpected connections between unrelated fields and ideas. The latter because it offered a radical and yet plausible vision of our future as a species.