Lack of humility might be the primary error of the nonsense known as Effective Altruism.
The first thing we must all understand is that we don't understand very much.
The important thing for the future is not intelligence, which we don't understand, but as now conceived is something like a combination of better memory and faster symbolic reasoning.
Those "needs" if they even are needs are already handled nicely by computers.
The important thing is wisdom, and that's something humans barely understand at all (and even less act on).
I have always believed that Tao te Ching is one of the best human written primers on Wisdom.
It is not wisdom itself but a pretty good reflection of it.
It's also ambiguous and mysterious. Wisdom is probably like that.
Wisdom is not like some know-it-all nerds.
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