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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 09 January 2013 09:53:18AM 1 point [-]

Is there some way us young people can precommit now to taking the outside view and being heavily influenced by the young people of tomorrow when we're old?

If any young person of the future is having an disagreement with me and happens across this decades-old comment, feel free to use it as an argument for your side.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 09 January 2013 10:21:42AM 0 points [-]

Is there some way us young people can precommit now to taking the outside view and being heavily influenced by the young people of tomorrow when we're old?

By starting right now, then carrying on? Heinlein (in the voice of Lazarus Long) had some advice about this:

"To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods."

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 09 January 2013 12:50:01PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, that's the obvious first step. I'm just looking for ways to add redundancy.