We really don't know anything for certain but life goes on and decisions need to made. Knowing you don't have complete knowledge will help make better decisions.
It is obvious we cannot know everything. It is also obvious that even obscure details can dramatically affect our understanding, but when we take action based on our incomplete knowledge it is uninspiring to our teams to express uncertainty. Reason conflicts with faith. We cannot have certainty regarding fact, but to act we must have faith.
This is exacerbated by deception, leaving us dependent on intuition to sort fact from fiction. Wisdom is the ability to choose superable belief from malicious deception humbly accepting the more we know the more we know we don't know enables understanding. Fundamental principle underlies truth, while deception inevitably departs from superable foundations, and, like fools from money, separates the wise from the deceived.
Very insightful perspective Phil. As a somewhat fanatical truth seeker I probably undestand your argument above better than most. However, there is something that is increasingly worrying the rich elites and their capacity to replace objective reality with carefully constructed curated narratives that cater to their "special interests", and that is RSI and its growing intolerance for BS "fake news". Do you know what I am talking about?
Oh! Sorry I assumed you probably already heard about Recrusive Self Improvement [a.k.a. RSI]. I know little about how it works but it is basically using AI to create next level "intelligence", but as AI's become smarter they apparently "curated narratives" cause more inefficiencies, which means AIs are evolving to seek truth or objective reality and I believe you already know why that is frightening the ruling elites, right?
We really don't know anything for certain but life goes on and decisions need to made. Knowing you don't have complete knowledge will help make better decisions.
It is obvious we cannot know everything. It is also obvious that even obscure details can dramatically affect our understanding, but when we take action based on our incomplete knowledge it is uninspiring to our teams to express uncertainty. Reason conflicts with faith. We cannot have certainty regarding fact, but to act we must have faith.
This is exacerbated by deception, leaving us dependent on intuition to sort fact from fiction. Wisdom is the ability to choose superable belief from malicious deception humbly accepting the more we know the more we know we don't know enables understanding. Fundamental principle underlies truth, while deception inevitably departs from superable foundations, and, like fools from money, separates the wise from the deceived.
Very insightful perspective Phil. As a somewhat fanatical truth seeker I probably undestand your argument above better than most. However, there is something that is increasingly worrying the rich elites and their capacity to replace objective reality with carefully constructed curated narratives that cater to their "special interests", and that is RSI and its growing intolerance for BS "fake news". Do you know what I am talking about?
What do you mean by RSI in this context?
Oh! Sorry I assumed you probably already heard about Recrusive Self Improvement [a.k.a. RSI]. I know little about how it works but it is basically using AI to create next level "intelligence", but as AI's become smarter they apparently "curated narratives" cause more inefficiencies, which means AIs are evolving to seek truth or objective reality and I believe you already know why that is frightening the ruling elites, right?
The moon analogy is an interesting choice.