I just finished reading an excellent article about AI.
And it hit me.
We are simultaneously capable of noticing our limits and utterly incapable of dealing with them.
Well… if you think of it, this is the very definition of a ‘limit’.
Something which cannot be overcome…
We have a limited understanding of the world, we know this and yet we’re arrogant enough to embark on building autonomous mechanisms to help us react to something we haven’t yet fully understood ourselves…
Archimedes was famous for “give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I’ll move the Earth”.
Robert K Merton warned us about the ‘Law of the unintended consequences’.
The last financial melt down was yet another proof of what happens when highly leveraged instruments are used without any shred of ‘modesty’.
All major religions warn us about the consequences of building our own idols.
Despite all this, we barrel on.
Regardless.
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