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Excellent Advice For Living: Kevin Kelly On Wealth, AI, Optimism, & The Future

The Rich Roll Podcast

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The Importance of Thinking

Kurzweil's idea that you could solve cancer by thinking about it, just by reading papers is a religious fantasy. It reminds me of Nick Bostrom who has the paperclip, the paperclip thought experiment. And so this idea of a general intelligence, it's ignorance of the fact that we have no idea how our own minds work. We can't explain ourselves but things can still be useful even though we don't understand them.

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