I wasn't claiming that the future should be scary and different because of my personal preference...any more than Alicorn was claiming that her personal preference for no surprises should determine the future for everybody. I was really just pointing out that although I agree with Alicorn on a lot of things, this is a particular area where we are different, probably more because of personality than values.

I guess this was more my point: there's a wide variance in terms of human preferences for novelty vs familiarity, and I'm far from the novelty extreme. Any future that doesn't take that into account is going to make someone unhappy–well, either overwhelmed and terrified or really bored, depending on which side of the continuum that future ends up on. But given that even in today's world, it's possible for at least some people to choose the level of risk/novelty/scariness they want in life, hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to tailor a eutopia in that sense, either.