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technology appreciation re-wording. warning- pro-piety

The wide variety of life forms on planet earth is nothing short of remarkable. As much as our life experiences today are incredible, our human view alone just doesn’t match the natural world in terms of variety of ways to be alive. Evolution of innumerable species that evolve together over billions of years is a continuous miracle that no science has any complete explanation of -- truly remarkable and humbling. I think it would do a lot of technologists good to contemplate humility as one of many living beings in the natural world

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Actually, I was saying that technologists should be humble because their inventions pale in the face of nature’s inventions (including but not limited to the human brain). It’s ironic that this summary was generated by mistral? Because it completely missed my point.

omg no I am a person with a nick "mistrial" (say that out loud).. btw your nick is "therobots" ..

I "completely" missed your point?

Oh ok your comment just sounded like an AI summary. And yeah the main point was that nature can do things that technology cannot. When I say technologists need to be humble it’s because their inventions do not compare to nature’s inventions in many areas, especially microtechnology. When I hear someone like Sam Altman claim that chatGPT will achieve human level intelligence soon, I just find that to be laughable. It’s been well established that nature has accomplished something much more impressive with the human brain.

i find it interesting, to see technologist humbling in front of sheer complexity, when is sparse over billions of years. What people were able to achieve in such a (seems always shorter) frame, it's nothing easy to live with

The natural world has evolved just as many ways to be miserable and sick and in mind shattering agony as ways to be alive. Perhaps many more. Don't forget that when you ask for your humility. You should also ask for a sense of cosmic horror for this hellish prison we find ourselves trying to claw out of.

If a God created the natural order, with its unending beauty and horror, then surely, on the balance of things, they were either more than a little sadistic and evil ... or they were purely insane.

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