David Deutsch
@DavidDeutschOxf
Physicist. Author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity
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Knowledge, bah! Who needs more knowledge? It is well known for having <gasp> Side-Effects. Whereas ignorance never hurt anyone!
I just fixed my dishwasher with the help of ChatGPT. A trivial task. I had been about to order a new one. So this software has increased the country's real wealth yet decreased the measured GDP. The main economic indicator is structurally incapable of registering the thing that actually makes people better off, namely the growth of knowledge
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@CrowsNest2023 Obviously it must be that those premises and those laws of motion are not the fundamental ones.
Doctors and patients have overlapping but not identical interests. The patient values both peace of mind and longevity. The doctor doesn't value the former (for the patient) at all, and also negatively values lawsuits.
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