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This is a great post, and I'd be interested in seeing you write out a fuller version of what you said to your relative as a top level post, something like "Friendly AI and the Singularity explained for adolescents."
Also, do you speak English as a second language? If so, I am especially impressed with your writing ability.
On a tangent, am I the only one that doesn't like the usage of boy, girl, or child to describe adolescents? It seems demeaning, because adolescents are not biologically children, they've just been defined to be children by the state. I suppose I'm never going to overturn that usage, but I'd like to know if there is some reason why I shouldn't be bothered by the common usage of the words for children.
Yes, English is second language for me and I mostly learned it via reading things on the Internet.
Excuse me for the boy/guy confusion, I did not have any particular intent behind the wording. It was an unconscious application of my native language's tendency to refer to <18 year old males with the "boy" equivalent word. As I'm mostly a lurker I have much less writing than reading experience; currently I usually make dozens of spelling/formulation corrections on longer posts, but some weirdly used words or mistakes are guaranteed to remain in the text.
The boy usage is correct in English as well; I just don't like that usage, but I'm out of the mainstream.