Read Paul Graham’s essay: Is It Worth Being Wise? this morning. It occurs to me that I value wisdom more than intelligence. I love living in a time where genius has more opportunities to express itself, but I also recognize that I’m not a genius. In the end, while we, as a community of beings, are finding all these new things or creating them, there is value in choosing between them that won’t take genius, but wisdom. It will come from subscribing to a set of values of determining how these new technologies fit into it. But, those values cannot come from a time where these possibilities did not exist. New ideas will reshape values, and it is up to the wise to determine how to optimize that, once the possible becomes actual.
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