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Not sure if we are essentially bad a a species or infants repeating the same mistakes every few generational cycles. I think we could be collectively better if
by stephc_int13 4y ago
Not sure if we are essentially bad a a species or infants repeating the same mistakes every few generational cycles.
I think we could be collectively better if we had time to build both vast knowledge and wisdom and use it before dying of old age.
- bmitc 4y agoWe live 50-80 years and have writing. I'm not sure there's an argument for us not having enough time or knowledge bases to grow out of infancy.
- stephc_int13 4y agoAnd still we collectively make the same mistakes over and over again. This is not what I'd call learning. We don't remember much from the past because we were not alive, we don't read much about it, the available knowledge is extremely sparse and biased. I only recently understood the scale of the generational knowledge loss. We tend to intuitively associate longevity with old age and all of its quirkiness and frailty, but if we solved ageing, being old would not be a thing anymore.
- bmitc 4y agoRight, my point is that we have the tools and capability, but we don't take advantage of them.