I like the way this article topples the 'wisdom' pyramid. Consider AI: it "doesn't climb a virtual digital pyramid from data to information to knowledge to wisdom... Instead, it processes patterns, generates responses, and creates what appears to be wisdom through statistical relationships between tokens." This raises the question: why do we suppose humans are any different? "Perhaps the hierarchy we've constructed is less about the nature of information and more about how we've chosen to categorise our own cognitive processes." Perhaps "the process of generating appropriate responses to complex situations doesn't require climbing a hierarchy at all... Perhaps the value isn't in the accumulation but in the generation; not in reaching the summit, but in developing the capacity to respond thoughtfully to whatever terrain we encounter."
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