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Comment by demibabs

4 days ago

> displacing the advantages of unearned social or financial power

A technology that lets you directly buy intelligence with money will displace financial power?

what people consider to be "intelligence" isn't about doing l33t maths, its about self-doubt. This enables us to mitigate against our cognitive biases and instinctual impulses and accept truth, which leads to more useful outcomes.

All that buying a calculator does, is allow you to do bad sums more quickly.