redwins

redwins t1_j75dttm wrote

Ortega y Gasset would have said that he's on the right path, but needs to go a step further. What makes humans unique is not reducible to our brains or biology, but why we try to make sense of things. In a sense the how is not very interesting, after all when you try to do something all the time, you're bound to get good at it. But what was the motivation from the start?

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redwins t1_ispu1al wrote

Does the human race strike you as the beakon of Reason? GPT3 is as reasonable as the best of humans I would say. Imagination and Reason have always been overrated, or more precisely, we enjoy thinking too highly and pompously of ourselves. Isn't it just as exciting to think that the Universe is capable of producing us, with just a tad of luck in the soup of ingredients?

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