/lit/ - Literature

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>trying to understand how I can convince myself to get by with partial knowledge.
It's as simple as not caring about knowledge at all and only caring about wellbeing. Knowledge is useless if we can't use it to improve people's wellbeing. The never ending quest to seek knowledge and seeking the next thing that makes us happy just prevents us from ever being happy by default.
>Our best solutions to the AI problem is throwing more math at it and more supercomputers until it somehow "clicks" and becomes full-blown, conscious AI.
People aren't just throwing math at supercomputers "hoping it clicks". Just because we don't know what will the next catalyst for AI this doesn't mean it's pin the tail on the donkey.
>if philosophy and life is full of questions that have no final answer, then how can we rationally choose incomplete solutions and live with them?
What's the point of philosophy? What's the reason why we do anything? To increase wellbeing. We will know we're right when we increase people's wellbeing. That's how we will know when we are right. Why should we care about wellbeing? There's no law in the universe to say that we should, but almost everyone agrees on it so why does that matter? You need to stop asking yourself pointless questions.