Agree almost across the board.
So: what to do? :)
So: what to do? :)
for me, it boils down to keeping the brain open and helping others do the same. but that's a personal heuristic. most people don't want to pay the socioeconomic cost of being an independent thinker.
This seems like a no-brainer to me...but now you have two problems!
Is it highly unlikely that humanity might some time in the next couple hundred years look back at us and shake their heads about how simplistic and naive we are, and I include the so-called "experts" in that. Is it impossible that there's something that no one sees? Or maybe even more complex than that?
Well, it's possible a species would not find such a thing, because it never thought to look for it. Perhaps too busy looking for other things, of questionable utility.
but yes, it's highly unlikely that they could shake their heads at every instance of today's ignorance and hubris in totality.
Maybe that subset could be us!
> but yes, it's highly unlikely that they could shake their heads at every instance of today's ignorance and hubris in totality.
Why not? Can you not do this?
in any case, the hard part is not finding candidates but culling them down, analogous to the halting problem (or the bullshit asymmetry problem). is it an infinite calculation? probably.
and this thread has dropped pretty far into the archives, so i think it might be time to retire it. perhaps we can continue in a future thread.
My motto is: aim for adequacy, not perfection.
> in any case, the hard part is not finding candidates but culling them down, analogous to the halting problem (or the bullshit asymmetry problem). is it an infinite calculation? probably.
Maybe. But also: maybe not!
> and this thread has dropped pretty far into the archives, so i think it might be time to retire it. perhaps we can continue in a future thread.
Haha, not a bad idea...I enjoyed the conversation, a breath of fresh air for HN.