If I have to choose between having a long life and having the wisdom to have a good life.
I prefer the wisdom.
But to be wise you have to live long or to learn from mistakes of others. Especially from mistakes of elders.
Wisdom doesn't serve you much if you don't have power to apply it.
The regimes that cut the wings of youngsters are disheartening.
If the symbol for Nazi Germany was the train and the gas chamber.
The symbol for Ceaușescu regime should be the orphanage with neglected children.
In general in modern economy you are a cog in a wheel.
For example you are an aeronautical engineer. The only place where you can sell your work is at a plane factory.
The factory take your work in others and transforms it into a miracle: a big plane that flies.
Because it is hard to pull miracles , your company is well paid, it becomes bigger and bigger.
But who is at the helm of the he company?
A man who can make costly mistakes, with big effects, and this single point of failure make the whole thing more fragile.
Of course we can take some of the burden of the CEO, and increase the bureaucracy. More middle management, things will be stable but slower.
A firm will grow till it is no longer manageable, it crumbles and it pulls the whole industry.
The best example is VW decision of management to alter the tests, pulled down VW, its suppliers, and stopped it entering into ev market.
Imagine if VW management decide to enter in hybrid market, instead of continuing diesel. No Dieselgate, no losses, a new market created and dominated by VW.
It was a single point of failure and lack of flexibility.
The same happened to Kodak, to Easy India company and many big companies or empires who are a shadow of the former selves.
I just heard that Argentina's president Milei is opening again the Falkland island dispute.
Few years ago I read a book which collected the writings of Romanian Julius Popper who explored Patagonia for Argentina's government:
Deceived by government officials who skimmed expedition budget in Buenos Aires, low on supplies, with only 12 loyal Croat emigrants he held ground to lawless gold diggers who were taking over the Tiers del Fuego region and attacked the locals.
From wilderness he wrote back to Buenos Aires a business plan that could develop Tiers del Fuego:
"British Falkland islands have ports that repair shops who cross the Horn or Magellan straight. British government mandates that all the ships should perform an inspection before and after crossing the straight "
"Despite having lower quality soil as in Tiers de Fuego, Falkland islands have many sheep herds and this brings big revenues. Tiera del Fuego doesn't have any"
I don't know how British empire succeed to make any barren stretch of land profitable and former Spanish colonies didn't.
Maybe the economy was more decentralized in Britain? And more centralized in Spanish empire?
You could extract more wealth being a bureaucrat in Buenos Aires than going in Tiera de Fuego and raising sheep's ?
Anyway Brits earned their right to own the Falkland islands.
Argentina must fix their internal problems.
Dutch professor Gerlinde has a theory that entropy causes gravity, mass aligns spins of q bits making them more orderly and decreasing entropy around mass this forces everything to go to the mass.
Sabine Hofsteder explains better.
https://youtu.be/qNt2bhPS9ts?si=jaiPWLJ-Wzjo8jlB
But what if all the forces are related to entropy ?
Imagine hitting a golf ball
In the area where you hit is more order because the stress induced by cross is arranging the particles, this means that between the back and the front of ball is a entropy gradient and ball will be propelled toward higher entropy.
In economy injection of fake money by the state dilutes their value.
In society generation of fake information by AI dilutes the truth.
People can interact and reason because they agree on some basic truths. Language is an example, we can communicate because we agree that these signs have the same meaning for us.
The post moderns clumsily tried to deconstruct this by saying that female and male are the same.
AI is doing the same thing but at an industrial scale. It doesn't deconstruct the meaning but it is inventing relations that are not there.
In the past a peasant went to the local shaman/priest and asked about the shape of the earth.
The shaman didn't want look like a fool and invented an explanation that the land is flat and it rests on a turtle back.
That explanation worked till that peasant become a sailor and he had to use more realistic model of earth as a sphere to navigate
But the shaman/priest didn't update his knowledge base, because he didn't had the same feedback.
People can have false beliefs that are corrected by external factors.
In AI as in a religion these corrections are not happening, or not fast enough.
To correct a huge centralized AI, you have to delegate this it's users, but whom to trust?
Some users have malicious intent.
AI is like a religion offers answers based on some common beliefs but it is more than that.
The Catholic church before Luther could impose a certain world view on the peasant, merchants and crafts men. But it didn't affected the way they worked.
Catholic church banned use of heaten Arabic numbers, but Italian merchant ignore the bank.
Imagine a Catholic church,centralized all powerful that can force you to use roman numerals instead of Arabic. This is AI now.
More than ever we must invest in human intelligence, so we can filter AI mistakes.
Gutenberg bible empowered free thinkers to challenge Catholic church dogma.
After 2 centuries of religious wars and persecutions. Catholic church reformed, the states became laic and liberal.
I think we should make clubs were people will use only their brains to reason with artificial help.
I don't think that it will be a war between freethinkers and AI, but AI has the disadvantage that is expensive, and optional. The option to use human brain always exists.
The way AI was developed it is putting it in competition with human brain.
It could be developed to complement the brain as the computer was developed.
Before smart devices, the man the subject and the tool was the object.
You took the phone and dial a number.
Now the phone speaks to us and tell us what to do.
Now the smart tool is the subject and we are the objects
The psyche executive function means that you can start task and finish them.
Some religions with rituals , and strict discipline can improve the executive function of believers making them more successful, enriching the cult and expand it.
In the fight between orgiastic Rituals of Bachus and Christian austerity. The last one won, because it increased self discipline and executive function of the believers.
Such religions who improve their human resources, have greater succes and survive the clergy corruption.
After the corrupt clergy is removed, usually by the grim reaper, in the church body you have enough competent leaders to replace them.
Religions who cannot improve or expand by conversion the human resources pool, die.
That's why religions who use fanatics for self sacrifice, are self limiting and finally die.
