On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jack Park wrote: (01)
> I take up so much bandwidth here on topics like this because I believe
> these topics to be germane to the evolution of tools useful to the
> augmentation of a collective IQ. (02)
(Moving this to yak, from tools, as I'm moving into
philosophy-land) (03)
This reminds me of a little informal survey I've been wanting to
throw: (04)
Assume a scale of 1 to 7. A point on the scale is the locus of
the problem or hotpoint of challenge in augmenting collective IQ.
At one end we have tools at the other people: (05)
tools people
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (06)
What number would you choose? Why? (07)
A 1, for example, would mean something like "I think if we could
just create the right tool, we could really bootstrap our
improvement and get the ball rolling." (08)
A 7 might mean "I think the real roadblock is with people.
Despite their protests to the contrary, I think people are
subconsciously spending their energy in ineffective manners." (09)
I'd guess I'm about a 6. I think sufficiently motivated people
will and can make whatever tools are necessary. Society lacks
motivation, so the tipping point has not been reached. (010)
That said, I'm well aware that there are many individuals who are
far more motivated that society as a whole and they are trying. (011)
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Chris Dent
cdent@blueoxen.org (012)
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