I think the gradually accelerating tempo of technological progress prepares people better for AGI than a lot of people imagine. The median American born in 1986 has lived through the fall of communism, the Internet, e-commerce, search, the ISS, 9/11, social media, the iPhone, the financial crisis, streaming, woke 1.0 and its backlash, COVID, BLM, and now early AI. The median Englishman on the eve of the Industrial Revolution saw virtually no social or technological development at all and so the…