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This is the most profound comment I’ve ever read on this website. How do we do push the culture in a direction such that productive intellectual pursuits will actually be intrinsically desirable in the AI era?


> "It's easier to get and raise a child

> Than to put character in him. No one

> Has ever found a way to make a fool

> Wise or a bad man good. If god had taught

> This to the children of Asclepius—

> How to cure badness or a muddled brain—

> What handsome fees they'd earn!"

That was Theogenis from the 6th century BC. I don’t think we’re any closer today than they were back then.




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