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0c3ca83 • yesterday at 8:45 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Cooperate to what end? If we succeed at obsoleting thinking, what would the collaboration be about?

(Also, I suspect if you take 100,000 humans, with no explanation, and force them against their will into Wembley stadium, you'll also get chaos.)


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vdietrich • yesterday at 9:04 PM

I apologize that I've just updated my answer above bringing Peter Gray's play definition to help us deal with our innate curiosity.

I'll summarize here: If we succeed at obsoleting thinking, we loose the game, we stop playing, according to Peter Gray's definition.

So you - and the mourning mathematicians - are all correct: we loose the most important part of life, according to Gray's view (above).

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