On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 5:20 AM Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.net> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1KXcLo84RTCVSK50G1wUbWs0Mh2uC1WqgLtTFkYVYt%2BA%40mail.gmail.com.
