Humans"Evolution is the ultimate example of how much a simple learning algorithm can achieve given enough data. Its input is the experience and fate of all living creatures that ever existed. (Now that's big data.) On the other hand, it's been running for over three billion years on the most powerful computer on Earth: Earth itself." We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. “Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.” ― Abraham Lincoln As the only known beings able to comprehend, humans are privileged to be able to appreciate unfolding evidence of the awesome scale of the universe, the natural world, and of deep history. Religion and its imaginary god(s) have held us back and could lead to our destruction. The future is up to us. https://gopiswrong.net/religion.htm Malthus Demography Groupthink Ability to see patterns Conspiracies Short Term Thinking Confirmation Bias Bubbles Sex
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