magfrump comments on Any sufficiently advanced wisdom is indistinguishable from bullshit - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Shalmanese 20 December 2009 10:09AM

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Comment author: Shalmanese 20 December 2009 08:39:30PM 3 points [-]

I'd be extremely suspicious that I'd stopped maturing if myself in 10 years could get along perfectly with myself of today. Take an informal poll of the people around you, I'll bet the vast majority of them would regard their past selves as frustratingly irritating because of all the missing advanced wisdom.

Comment author: magfrump 21 December 2009 04:06:04AM 1 point [-]

I'd be interested to see how their age played into this.

For example, I would expect that some college students who want to be teachers might find tweens decent company whereas others would be horrified at the prospect, and that 90 year olds might be sympathetic towards 80 year olds, whereas 30 year olds might more often regret drinking too much and studying too little in college.

Although in large part that is propaganda to make the question interesting more than a solid prediction.