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Re:When the algorithm is your boss by beckman466 on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:55AM (#30145300)
only because you won the lottery of birth. your brain isn't somehow genetically better than others' brains. you had access to more bridges/ladders early in your development, that's it. most people cannot grow further instead of bridges/ladders they meet walls/moats.
Re:When the algorithm is your boss by krageon on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:01AM (#30147431)
> your brain isn't somehow genetically better than others' brains.

You're going to have to elaborate on that, because AFAIK humanity has not solved intelligence to the point that we can say it is entirely nurture. That makes it reasonable to assume that it is part nature, which means that yes. It is genetically better than others' brains. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Re:When the algorithm is your boss by mutatio on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:37AM (#30146590)
Isn't the logical conclusion of this that the Darwin's, Newton's and Einstein's of this world weren't genetically predisposed, merely consequences of fate?

You don't believe success is a combination of nature and nurture?

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Re:When the algorithm is your boss by beckman466 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @01:15AM (#30159199)
please consider taking your own advice.

with ladders/bridges and walls/moats i am talking about the existing material reality that has one class (the propertied class) creating unnecessary artificial scarcity (on non-scarce material, i.e. using the intellectual property system) which stops the organic spread of technology and knowledge overall, as it's following the profit motive of capitalism. this article is from a socialist magazine, so it's common to refer to systemic black boxing and alienating/obscuring technology as 'gatekeeping'/'rent-seeking' (creating walls with unaffordable gates (for 99.999% of us)).