Stephen Downes

This is from 2019 but Ethan Mollock posted it today and it's still true. "Most of the errors that people make are better viewed as random noise, and there is an awful lot of it." Also, "Yann LeCun said yesterday that humans would always prefer emotional contact with other humans. That strikes me as probably wrong." To wrap up, "We are narrow thinkers, we are noisy thinkers, and it is very easy to improve upon us." The evidence for all this is overwhelming in my view, and while I know people don't want to hear it, I see their reticence as just further evidence of the truth of these statements. 4 page PDF.