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Congratulations! You've now decoupled from the current implications of being a 6 year old child, and considered how norms might change as circumstances do. I wonder what the implications are that certain people have very different cognitive maturities at different ages, wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to wait two decades to consider whether a 16 yo child getting admitted to MIT might benefit from a waiver of the restrictions typically enforced on all teens till an arbitrary and not particularly well grounded age?
The point of decoupling is that it lets you see that the differences you perceive as qualitative are merely quantitative, even if in this particular scenario there's likely no actual 6 year old child out there with the cognitive abilities of a typical adult.
As for the whole "fevered transhumanist dream" bit, well there's nothing I need to tell you that reality won't set straight shortly. I don't think you're in such ill health that you can't reasonably expect to be around in 20 years to see for yourself. I for one enjoy it immensely when the genre of reality itself changes to science fiction, while reserving my judgement of whether or not to add the dystopia/utopia tag afterwards.
Funny, I thought we were talking about adults fucking six year olds and not "very Smart Big Brain teenager start uni sooner, yes yes?"
You seem to be shifting your ground.
No, that's a clear example of decoupling a fact, someone having existed from a temporal duration of 6 round trips of the Earth around the Sun, from the current implications of said facts. Offering examples of why decoupling is laudable is not shifting the ground.
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I would like to be confident we'll all be immortal in 20 years, but so far bright-eyed futurists have been vastly overoptimistic. So many new things, and yet things are mostly the same.
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