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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bill do indulge me to post this forward to the list. This was an offline discussion, but it is very much in line with the topic at hand.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> William Flynn Wallace <foozler83@gmail.com> <br><br><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div style='margin-top:6.0pt;font-size:0.875rem' id="gmail-:rt"><div id="gmail-:gh"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>>…<span style='color:#222222'>As we get more sophisticated we run the risk of getting so smart, we figure out how our own brains work, at which time we become stupid by our own definition of smart</span>. <span style='color:#222222'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:#222222'>I do not understand your last phrase. The more we know about psychology the stupider we get?</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222'>bill w</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Ja. Just as we do with software, we keep moving the goal posts. Notice how far they have already moved for software, sheesh.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Consider what science has done. It has persistently demoted mankind. At one time we were the center of the universe. Then Galileo came along, the sun became the center of the universe. Then Darwin gave us the intellectual tools to demote ourselves again, from the special creation of that invisible guy (who lives in the women’s locker room at the U of Hawaii) to a species of ape. Then Einstein showed there isn’t a center of the universe, and at every step along the way, we became dumber by our own definition.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Now psychology tells us we might eventually be able to understand how our own brains work, at which time we can write sims of ourselves. We already have software which can understand speech and make pretty good inferences for what we want, which is a functional equivalent of what a phone receptionist does, and I can show you some phone receptionists who aren’t as good as phone software. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The more we know about psychology, the more predictable we apes become and the dumber we get by our own definition of smart.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>