katydee comments on Generalizing from One Trend - Less Wrong

14 Post author: katydee 18 January 2013 01:21AM

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Comment author: katydee 18 January 2013 07:24:41AM 5 points [-]

Did you read the letter? Huxley thought the Brave New World society would be set up "within the next generation" thanks to the advent of psychoanalysis and hypnosis and the combination of these techniques with psychoactive drugs.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 January 2013 07:34:48AM 1 point [-]

Interesting, I am reminded of a Milton Friedman quote where he says that in retrospect his predictions were right about what would happen, but wrong about when.