So believing to be a wrong guy is somehow... good?

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 13:42, justcamel <[email protected]> wrote:

> The right guy for what exactly? Forcing your world-view and axioms onto
> other people? Trying to make the world a better place by force? You are
> pretty much describing Orwell's "Animal Farm" in one sentence.
>
> Believing to be "the right guy" already is very problematic ...
> On 18/03/2019 12:19, Stefan Reich via AGI wrote:
>
> I know what you mean, but I don't really agree. It's natural to want power
> when you are the right guy for it. The fact that evil guys also want power
> doesn't change this.
>
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 08:25, justcamel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "Those who want to rule shouldn't. Those who should don't want to." ...
>> the old dilemma. Native American elders often stated they don't want to
>> be "in charge" of anything. A level of wisdom and self-reflection
>> totally absent in our culture.
>>
>> On 18/03/2019 08:15, Ben Goertzel wrote:
>> > Yes, it's great to know their top-secret elite committee will be
>> > looking out for all of our best interests
>
>
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