Knowledge
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We should all think that
knowledge
comes from our senses, so if we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our
knowledge.
The vision statement of Wikipedia is very simple: a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all
knowledge.
So wouldn't it be amazing if our phones could see the world in the same way that we do, as we're walking around being able to point a phone at anything, and then have it actually recognize images and objects like the human brain, and then be able to pull in information from an almost infinite library of
knowledge
and experiences and ideas.
For all their differences, people largely agree on what goes into human well-being: life, health, sustenance, prosperity, peace, freedom, safety, knowledge, leisure, happiness.
Do all of these gains in health, wealth, safety,
knowledge
and leisure make us any happier?
But there's no limit to the betterments we can attain if we continue to apply
knowledge
to enhance human flourishing.
Myths are fictions, but this one is true, true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have.
And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering and
knowledge
is better than ignorance and superstition.
Every new fact that is uncovered adds to the growing body of our collective
knowledge.
In science, research builds upon the work and
knowledge
of others, or by seeing further, by standing on the shoulders of giants, to paraphrase Newton.
After we finished talking, I felt so horrible and honestly ashamed at my own lack of
knowledge
of this atrocity in my own lifetime, and I thought, if I don't know, how many other people don't know?
And of course I was wrong, because my idea of wealth of
knowledge
was based in removing yourself from Third World thinking and living.
I started reading journal papers, started doing science competitions, started participating in science fairs, doing anything I could to get the
knowledge
that I so desperately wanted.
But as well as being regenerative by design, our economies must be distributive by design, and we've got unprecedented opportunities for making that happen, because 20th-century centralized technologies, institutions, concentrated wealth,
knowledge
and power in few hands.
This century, we can design our technologies and institutions to distribute wealth,
knowledge
and empowerment to many.
200 years of corporate control of intellectual property is being upended by the bottom-up, open-source, peer-to-peer
knowledge
commons.
It means those with the knowledge, skill and ability to respond on the front lines have little of the necessary tools, equipment and resources they need to save lives.
Their ability to coach and manipulate their computers to deeply explore specific positions effectively counteracted the superior chess
knowledge
of the grandmasters and the superior computational power of other adversaries.
The only institution with detailed
knowledge
of Haiti's floodplains had been leveled in the earthquake, leadership inside.
The U.S. Army had detailed
knowledge
for only a small section of the country.
It's this injustice that has really driven my mission to try to do a little bit to transform the lives of people affected by mental illness, and a particularly critical action that I focused on is to bridge the gulf between the
knowledge
we have that can transform lives, the
knowledge
of effective treatments, and how we actually use that
knowledge
in the everyday world.
Indeed, for me, task shifting is the ultimate example of the democratization of medical knowledge, and therefore, medical power.
Still, today, armed with that
knowledge
that ordinary people in the community can be trained and, with sufficient supervision and support, can deliver a range of health care interventions effectively, perhaps that promise is within reach now.
I said, "Your honor," and I don't know whether I was emboldened by the scientific measurements that I had in my pocket and my
knowledge
that they are accurate, or whether it was just sheer stupidity, which is what the defense lawyers thought — (Laughter) — when they heard me say, "Yes, Your Honor, I want you stand right there and I want the car to go around the block again and I want it to come and I want it to stop right in front of you, three to four feet away, and I want the passenger to extend his hand with a black object and point it right at you, and you can look at it as long as you want."
As you can see from the pictures, both Noam and I had an early fascination with first principles, and over the years, as our
knowledge
of science and technology became more sophisticated, this early awe with the basics has only intensified.
How would people describe your judgment, your knowledge, your behaviors, in different situations?
I envision a realtime stream of who has trusted you, when, where and why, your reliability on TaskRabbit, your cleanliness as a guest on Airbnb, the
knowledge
that you display on Quora or Tripovo, they'll all live together in one place, and this will live in some kind of reputation dashboard that will paint a picture of your reputation capital.
A lot of people look at this and they say, "OK, but those are very specific, narrow tasks, and most
knowledge
workers are actually generalists.
And what they do is sit on top of a very large body of expertise and
knowledge
and they use that to react on the fly to kind of unpredictable demands, and that's very, very hard to automate."
One of the most impressive
knowledge
workers in recent memory is a guy named Ken Jennings.
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