Awesome conversation! Been a student of DnD myself for some years now, and I am still in awe listening to this. Thanks, David, for giving a shoutout on X.
There does seem to be a way to create knowledge faster. Creating knowledge - creativity - is argued to be universal by humans. Which means that any one person can create as much as anyone else. Similar to computation, it is universal. A person computes the same way a human does. But the speed of computation and memory and fallibility are sliding scales. Some computers have more speed, memory, etc, Humans create knowledge like this. At The Society of Problem Solvers (on substack) we argue: Humans solve problems better in high trust groups. Why? 1) more ideas 2) more conjectures 3) more criticism 4) less ego 5) faster error correction Especially if the system is designed to aggregate and extract the wisdom found in crowds. #collectiveintelligence
I'm jealous of the fun you two are having. Just wanted to note that the apparent disagreement with David on monkeys not having creativity. Creativity is not evident by doing things. Creativity is evident by explanations. Monkeys can learn how to select a stick and poke termites and eat them, but they can't explain why they are doing it, and they can't improve upon the process. Monkeys did this 1 million years ago, and monkeys are doing the same thing now. I think David talks about the mimicking knowledge as being encoded in genes.
@@EliasSchlie in beginning of inf there was "first thing alive was a combination of catalyst + molecule that creates catalyst" guy was learning 4 months and missed the most important
