I think it's important to add that we can become wise by the knowledge of other men, as well as learn from the mistakes of other men. The intelligent will do that. The not so intelligent will unknowingly wait for it to happen to them.

I've tried to focus inwardly for a long time, but, for the necessity of all of us. I feel new technologies are existential ones...we've been neglecting them for capital.

There's a lot of clues that life could be a testing mechanism, but, if that mechanism was supposed to capture Good, it has failed as scarcity value has compromised what would have to be an even playing field.