Will Manidis hits the nail on its head:
the things that drive humans have been remarkably consistent across time, across technological progress, and across societies.
no matter what kind of millenarianism you are indulging in (ai, ufos, etc)— you can bet the forces of pride, greed, lust, gluttony, etc are constant
Interesting framing by Daniel Jefferies:
Infinitely self recursively improving systems are impossible.
It’s impossible to make a system that can correct all its own mistakes when it is the very thing making the mistake in the first place.
How do I know?
Evolution hasn’t figured it out in millions of years, why would we figure it out in two or two hundred?
Your brain is a bunch of crude hacks. Wonderful hacks and amazing hacks but crude nonetheless.
When you have to figure out if something is “true” or “real” you don’t actually come to any concrete, real, objective truth most of the time.
Instead, we have a ton of micro approximations in our heads that sorta, kinda get closer to an approximation of reality/truth, though sometimes they are way the hell off.
Was watching this video and wanted to understand more so I asked Claude and Gemini: Denis Noble and Richard Dawkins represent fundamentally opposing perspectives on how evolution works, centering on what drives evolutionary change and how biological information flows. \\The Core Disagreement: Gene-Centrism vs. Systems…
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