The overlooked point here is, We do not have any control over how we build next generation. We have a little control by teaching them. The example author gave assumes each generation having lots of control over the next generation, and hence figured out what bugs them and solved it. I do not think we know what bugs us. For some people other people having different religions bugs them, so they kill them and be happy. For some people unknown unified theory bugs them, they will not be happy till it found. So It is not possible to find universal solution to different problem. But It could happen that people with similar problem join a group and find a shortcut way of being happy, without the problem being solved.
>We do not have any control over how we build next generation.
Says who?
The author assumes uncertainty and exploits uncertainty to make a certain conclusion, when the uncertainty should just prevent him from forming a conclusion at all.
In fact it's fairly regular, I think, for singulitarians to let their imaginations run amok this way.
