The point about typical mind fallacy is well-taken but I don’t really see how you can be confident in preferences like the one quoted above given that the timeframes we’re talking about are much longer than your lifespan so far.
I’m not highly confident in them, but then your proposal also seems to make several assumptions about the nature of the preferences of very long-lived people. While “people will eventually get bored with routine” is plausible, so is “people will eventually get bored with constantly trying out new stuff, preferring more stability the older they get”. At least the latter hypothesis doesn’t seem significantly less likely than the former one, particularly given that currently-living humans do seem to shift towards an increased desire for stability the older they get.
In the face of uncertainty, we should be allowing people to engage in a variety of different approaches, rather than having entire society locked into one approach (e.g. age stratification). Maybe it empirically turns out that some people will in fact never get bored with their Thursday routine (or prefer to pre-emptively modify their brains so that they never will), while others do prefer to modify their routine but less than would be implied in your proposal, while others still end up creating a subculture that’s similar to the one you’ve outlined.
People get stuck in local maxima, and often don’t explore enough to find better options for themselves. The longer people live, the more valuable it is to have sufficient exploration to figure out the best option before choosing stability.
Certainly, but there are many ways of encouraging exploration while also letting you remain stable if you so prefer: e.g. AIs doing psychological profiling and suggesting things that you might have neglected to explore but would predictably enjoy, human-computer interfaces letting you view the experiences and memories of others the way that we watch movies today, etc.
I’m not highly confident in them, but then your proposal also seems to make several assumptions about the nature of the preferences of very long-lived people. While “people will eventually get bored with routine” is plausible, so is “people will eventually get bored with constantly trying out new stuff, preferring more stability the older they get”. At least the latter hypothesis doesn’t seem significantly less likely than the former one, particularly given that currently-living humans do seem to shift towards an increased desire for stability the older they get.
In the face of uncertainty, we should be allowing people to engage in a variety of different approaches, rather than having entire society locked into one approach (e.g. age stratification). Maybe it empirically turns out that some people will in fact never get bored with their Thursday routine (or prefer to pre-emptively modify their brains so that they never will), while others do prefer to modify their routine but less than would be implied in your proposal, while others still end up creating a subculture that’s similar to the one you’ve outlined.
Certainly, but there are many ways of encouraging exploration while also letting you remain stable if you so prefer: e.g. AIs doing psychological profiling and suggesting things that you might have neglected to explore but would predictably enjoy, human-computer interfaces letting you view the experiences and memories of others the way that we watch movies today, etc.