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A night in Juarez, rendered in the plain American style. No commentary, no lesson, just the city and the people in it, what it sells and what is bought.

What defines important and why must it be solved in haste? Many issues and other problems arise during the journey in solving all problems; those that are needed and those that are pursuits for their own sake.

If AI gave us the plane to reach Everest without us having gone through the journey of aviation and flight, what would we have lost without that process?

But the most important problems to be solved are not technological challenges but social ones, involving humans and our relationship to one another. An area AI will forever ill-suited to handle.

In the Economist article Tao links, Hugo Duminil-Copin, draws a comparison: airdropping someone on the summit of Mount Everest is very different from climbing it.

The fundamental issue with AI solving any perceived difficult problem is that we have lost the journey. The sight atop Mount Everest looks much different when you have climbed compared to being dropped from above.

In the Economist article Tao links, Hugo Duminil-Copin, draws a comparison: airdropping someone on the summit of Mount Everest is very different from climbing it.

The fundamental issue with AI solving any perceived difficult problem is that we have lost the journey. The sight atop Mount Everest looks much different when you have climbed compared to being dropped from above.

Do not let peace be given away as you cannot control what you cannot control.

Yes! The WSJ had a small article, a picture with a caption, about that. We were there two weeks ago, and our guide mentioned how he had never seen it so active.