Artificial intelligence vs natural stupidity
It's a biological fact that, unlike animals, humans are not born with perfect instinct. We are all born with a blank mind which contains nothing (except, perhaps, the inherent ability for language acquisition and generation -- Noam Chomsky thinks so, and I don't feel courageous enough to go against the MIT professor).
In short, we are born completely ignorant. The main struggle in life, then, is to acquire valuable and practical knowledge, in order to fulfill our human needs (which Abraham Maslow studied extensively -- remember Maslow's ladder of needs from Psycho. 101 in college?)
Living in society doesn't necessarily make us any smarter. It just makes it safer for those who are less smart, less strong or less financially endowed than the others.
Society is a safety net, not a springboard. Therefore, the people who want to soar and succeed big time, have no choice but to build, slowly yet surely, their own "artificial intelligence."
Not surprisingly, this is precisely what Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger did. More later.
In short, we are born completely ignorant. The main struggle in life, then, is to acquire valuable and practical knowledge, in order to fulfill our human needs (which Abraham Maslow studied extensively -- remember Maslow's ladder of needs from Psycho. 101 in college?)
Living in society doesn't necessarily make us any smarter. It just makes it safer for those who are less smart, less strong or less financially endowed than the others.
Society is a safety net, not a springboard. Therefore, the people who want to soar and succeed big time, have no choice but to build, slowly yet surely, their own "artificial intelligence."
Not surprisingly, this is precisely what Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger did. More later.
posted by Super Peter at 2:25 PM
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