Apropos of the comments below this post, many seem to be assuming humans can complete tasks which require arbitrarily many years. This doesn’t seem the case to me. People often peak intellectually in their 20′s, and sometimes get dementia late in life. Others just get dis-interested in their previous goals through a mid-life crisis or ADHD.
I don’t think this has much an impact on the conclusions reached in the comments (which is why I’m not putting this under the post), but this assumption does seem wrong in most cases (and I’d be interested in cases where people think its right!)
Apropos of the comments below this post, many seem to be assuming humans can complete tasks which require arbitrarily many years. This doesn’t seem the case to me. People often peak intellectually in their 20′s, and sometimes get dementia late in life. Others just get dis-interested in their previous goals through a mid-life crisis or ADHD.
I don’t think this has much an impact on the conclusions reached in the comments (which is why I’m not putting this under the post), but this assumption does seem wrong in most cases (and I’d be interested in cases where people think its right!)