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A saying describes people as viewing inventions from before their birth as natural, inventions arriving around age 20 as exciting, and inventions arriving after age 60 as unnatural or abhorrent.
Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“look into different different modes and a weird way people also get stuck in different modes you know like there's a lot of people like don't teach an old dog new tricks kind of thing like once people are stuck in their ways the older they get the harder it is for them to to think new ways and there's this i think a comment i forgot who said it but it's like everything that was invented uh before you were born is natural everything that is invented when you're 20 is cool and everything that's invented after”
“And after you're 60 is like unnatural and abomination and kind of weird.”Play from 58:33Report a misattribution
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