High Rung Thinking and Stick Figures

April 14, 2021 at 9:40 am

If you don’t know about Wait But Why, let me wel­come you to a very deep, deeeeeep rab­bit hole of the Internet. Tim post­ed answers to read­er ques­tions this morn­ing and there were some fun thoughts sprin­kled through­out. That’s not the usual for­mat though. Every now and again, he drops 7500+ words on arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, human­i­ty, or some other insane­ly fun­da­men­tal and high­ly researched topic. Consider this an old school blog link rec­om­men­da­tion; add WBW to your RSS or signup for emails to get the occa­sion­al crit­i­cal think­ing bomb delivered.

The pes­simistic part of my brain, look­ing at real­i­ty, makes a sad face and pats the opti­mistic part of my brain on the head.

The opti­mistic part of my brain, remem­ber­ing how bad humans are at intu­itive­ly under­stand­ing expo­nen­tial growth, pats the pes­simistic part of my brain on the head.