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--></style></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="spike66@att.net" data-contactname="spike" class="clickable"><span title="spike66@att.net">spike</span><span class="detail"> <spike66@att.net></span></span> , 19/12/2014 7:20 AM:<br><blockquote class="mcnt mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="mcnt"><div class="mcntWordSection1"><p class="mcntMsoNormal"> </p><p class="mcntMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">All those home-repair videos came about in the last ten to fifteen years is quiet growth of wealth; nothing spectacular or splashy, but the cumulative effect is high.</span></p><p class="mcntMsoNormal"></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes! People totally underestimate the value inherent in Wikipedia, that can be glanced at the Mayo clinic info pages, the numerous threads about a software problem. We are sharing human capital in better and better ways.</div><div><br></div><div>Quiet knowledge growth is powerful just like the Flynn effect, like the spread of cellphones, like literacy. </div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote class="mcnt mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="mcnt"><div class="mcntWordSection1"><p class="mcntMsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">With respect to transhumanism, I must think that accumulated knowledge of programming in the general population is a form of quiet growth towards Transhumanist goals. </span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>There is that, but also the increased ability to share good solutions and recipes. I don't have to be a statistics geek to use a good routine in R, nor (on a slightly darker turn) a hacker to use a rootkit. We crystalize and outsource skills, making them cheaply available to everybody. </div><div><br></div><br><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</body></html>