Comment by tengbretson

3 hours ago

> true optimal

True optimal what? Optimal intelligence? What would that be?

Better at predicting real world consequences from priors than we are :)

  • We already know why most things happen. But beat around the bush. That is the problem. We don't care.

    When a severe security bug crops up, one postmortem tells where we messed up. Someone somewhere didn't do his job. Maybe they prioritised speed, money or due to management issue. But we know why.

    When an accident happens (Motorvehicles or otherwise), most of the time, if anyone in the chain of events did their job, it could've been avoided. But we ignored the policies, standards and laws set in place to avoid just that. There can't be a better example than Boeing for this.

    When it comes to natural disasters, we know how to fix most of it. But we as human race just don't want to.

    Hell, we knew how to freakin avoid Covid which came out of the blue. 6ft apart, wash hands and mask. We couldn't agree to that to keep us ALIVE!

    IMO, we don't want new technologies, new innovations, new laws in most cases. We just needs to apply what we know already - PROPERLY! But that ain't fancy.

    All I could remember is that tweet where musk has a $2M reward for the invention of a carbon capture device or something around those lines. And someone replied to that tweet saying, it's trees. Trees do this.