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Vaniver comments on New vs. Business-as-Usual Future - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 06 November 2013 04:20:04PM 3 points [-]

Yes, there are some elements which are the same, but the overall experience is still different enough that the peasant would have been literally incapable of imagining the modern urbanite's life.

I think the reverse is also true- modern Western societies are so individualistic that I imagine most moderns can't imagine what it was like to be in some of the communities or hierarchies of the past.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 09 November 2013 07:48:27AM 1 point [-]

Agreed.