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Why Humans Are So Bad at Seeing the Future
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoDefine "bad". Are dogs good at seeing the future? Are computers? Humans are bad at it compared to some theoretical standard that some people think we should reach. We're bad at seeing the future compared to hindsight. We're not bad at it compared to any other existing implementation of "seeing the future", though.
- tuatoru 4y ago> Here was a man who, when asked to paint a portrait of the future a half-century away, imagined a very large and wonderful fish. He predicted Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment. The new day is a great big fish!