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I wonder if 6 would be understanding own thinking. Currently humans don't understand this. Thoughts just pop in to our heads and we try to explain what caused t
by flimflamm 1y ago
I wonder if 6 would be understanding own thinking. Currently humans don't understand this. Thoughts just pop in to our heads and we try to explain what caused them.
- Animats 1y ago7. Full scalability. Can operate organizations of large size without confusion.
- tempodox 1y agoOne can dream. Seeing how people already start to get confused when a logical negation is in play, I'm not optimistic.
- pengstrom 1y agoI'm more optimistic but cynical. Everybody has the capacity, but can't be bothered for your sake specifically. A highly intelligent person can casually entertain several theoretical notions. A lesser can too, but it requires more effort. Effort that might be better spent elsewhere, or effort that makes social interaction awkward.
- aswegs8 1y agoHigher consciousness does not imply cooperation, even though we idealize it to do so. Cooperation is another dimension - it is easy to imagine a being that has a higher form of consciousness but is not interested in cooperation or does not engage in it unless it can take advantage of others.
- root_axis 1y agoNot sure what you mean. It seems like thoughts must necessarily pop into our head, how would we know our thoughts before we think them?
- matt-attack 1y agoOne of the most insightful things I learned about myself. Sam Harris has a fascinating 2hr podcast on the subject of free will. The idea that we don’t choose what we think is fascinating and so obvious after it’s explained. But I don’t know that I’d ever have realized.