Sublime

History is rarely, if ever, monocausal. Major world events are cumulative, even when a spark apparently ignites them.27

Intellectual polymaths are either scholars that excel in multiple unrelated disciplines (multidisciplinary), or thinkers who synthesise seemingly disparate areas of knowledge in order to make a serious contribution to one of more of them (interdisciplinary).

the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP), Anthropic's recently released Claude3 model, considered by many to be the current state-of-the-art in GFMs, sourced the constitution used to steer model behavior using Polis.

Numerous other theorists could be named. Certainly the assorted proponents of this recent turn

Management psychologist Philip Tetlock concludes from his research that there is an inverse relationship between the best scientific indicators of good judgement and single-minded specialisation. Drawing from Isaiah Berlin's ‘fox and the hedgehog’ analogy, he contends that the fox – the thinker who knows many little things, draws from an eclectic

Huntington’s is a clear example of an accidentally accumulated mutation, where a single gene causes something unambiguously and severely bad at post-reproductive ages. But, while deadly single-gene conditions provide clear examples, the bigger deal when it comes to normal aging is the cumulative effect of many different genes, working alone or in

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coherence effect. Because an accurate assessment of the causes of a situation can be extremely complicated, our minds often end up boiling down our assessments to grossly simplified explanations that fit with what a rule or set of rules tells us.