experience is incompressible
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If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
What’s the difference between wisdom and philosophy? (Saw this as a prompt for a writing competition… and it’s in the context of AI). Where philosophy might be abstract, external, and machine-possible, wisdom is hard earned. Wisdom is a kind of slow intelligence; no matter what you know, you have to apply it, misuse it, and grok the implications in
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