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Everything else comes from that "Machines are our one advantage, compared to everything we lack for not being strong like rhinos or fast like cheetahs or able to fly like eagles" is an old, reductive take But even comparing us to other primates it's true
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Don't be ungrateful about how technology is "unnatural" and bad, it's literally the only reason we're here We're like a circuit board from an obsolete smart thermostat someone hacked to be a Turing-complete platform
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"You took a perfectly good monkey and gave it anxiety, etc" You plugged all these peripherals into the circuit board of a thermostat and you're running Linux on it and doing word processing and linear regressions and playing Doom and whatnot while smoke comes out of the box
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Hey, don't forget all the other hominids though
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arguably the key feature of humanity isn't abstract thought in some exalted sense, but the ability to cooperate, and especially /to do what you're told/
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most other species, each new animal has to start learning the world from scratch, each time the thing about humans is, someone else can figure out how to do X, and then tell you, and you don't have to figure it out yourself or even really understand it you just do X now
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Living long enough, in large groups, to pass on learned knowledge. Octopuses are smart but live for only a few years, and mostly solitary.
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(I think this bootstrap is likely the Great Filter, fwiw)
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