One day we’ll discover the means to quickly communicate insights from one individual to another, say by directly copying and integrating the relevant neural circuitry. Then, in order for an insight to be Fun, it will have to be novel to transhumanity, not just the person learning or discovering it. Learning something the fast efficient way will not be Fun because there’s not true effort. Pretending that the new way doesn’t exist, and learning the old-fashioned way, will not be Fun because there’s not true victory.
I’m not sure there are enough natural problems in the universe to supply the whole of transhumanity with an adequate quantity of potential insights. “Natural” meaning not invented for the sole purpose of providing an artificial challenge. Personally, I can’t see how solving the n-th random irrelevant mathematical problem is any better than lathing the n-th table leg.
One day we’ll discover the means to quickly communicate insights from one individual to another, say by directly copying and integrating the relevant neural circuitry. Then, in order for an insight to be Fun, it will have to be novel to transhumanity, not just the person learning or discovering it. Learning something the fast efficient way will not be Fun because there’s not true effort. Pretending that the new way doesn’t exist, and learning the old-fashioned way, will not be Fun because there’s not true victory.
I’m not sure there are enough natural problems in the universe to supply the whole of transhumanity with an adequate quantity of potential insights. “Natural” meaning not invented for the sole purpose of providing an artificial challenge. Personally, I can’t see how solving the n-th random irrelevant mathematical problem is any better than lathing the n-th table leg.