• yanyuan@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    We are basically a bunch of cavemen and while our brains stopped evolving ~100,000 years ago, we somehow managed to create weapons of global scale and to partially organise on a global scal.

    It’s a rollercoaster ride without breaks, but hey, maybe we’re lucky.

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      2 years ago

      That’s the thing about general-purpose intelligence. Once you develop it for a certain set of tasks, you find you can do many other things with it.

      Really, human intelligence is amazing. I also call people dumb often but I think the reality is that they are lazy when they can be. And that’s just good old fashioned resource conservation.