On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 5:20 AM Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Even if you have an IQ of 200 and spend your entire life studying >> consciousness you will advance the field precisely as much as the entire >> human race has in the last thousand years. And that would be precisely >> zero. Isaac Newton must've had an IQ of about 200 and unfortunately he >> spent much more time studying theology than physics and mathematics put >> together, but despite that colossal effort he advanced the field of >> theology not at all, > > > *> Unfortunately for you maybe, but perhaps it gave him joy and I bet that > was the main thing that mattered to Isaac Newton. Good for him, I would > say. At some point we will all be dead, and nothing will matter or be > useful to us by then.* > I can only speak for myself but all else being equal if given the choice between a task that has a chance of accomplishing something and a task that can only lead to a dead end then I would choose the one that might actually achieve something, even if that achievement is just an abstract understanding of something with no practical value. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> npv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1KXcLo84RTCVSK50G1wUbWs0Mh2uC1WqgLtTFkYVYt%2BA%40mail.gmail.com.
