How do people become so divided on issues? How do they simultaneously know so little on the subject?

This article explores the dynamics of tribal divides. As this is a midflip article, please edit freely, and we will vote on any changes.

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Artificial Intelligence is based on optimization. A measurable goal is set, and the system updates to better achieve that goal. This ALWAYS involves maximizing or minimizing a number.

We have gotten pretty clever with maximizing and minimizing numb...

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For hundreds of millions of years the DNA has been dealing with its own alignment problem. It needed the organisms it created to survive, thrive, and reproduce.

We often take for granted that organisms want to do these things. However, in reality it...

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Improving in a creative direction is hard. Really hard. That’s why most people simply copy what has been done before. But now everyone and their AI can do that.

So, we turn to the difficult road… but perhaps the more meaningful one.

Creating somet...

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Human organizations are the most powerful force on the planet. How do we achieve this? With hierarchies. The hierarchy structure allows for specialization. It allows us to break down goals, solve problems, and push solutions forward on a massive sca...

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Here we are creating a mental model of how learning occurs. It is a get-in, get-out, don’t-f-about type of model. We skip the low-down explanations of neurons and move straight to representations. How do representations form? how do they interconnect...

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