Reply #28: I don't think the process has to be inevitable [View All]

[Armstead]

I understasnd the dynamic you are referring to.

But I think it feeds on an unecessary level of intellectual laziness to perpetuate itself.

We could avoid that sad outcoime if we were more thoughtful and discriminating about how we solve problems.

By that I mean there is a point at which an advance becomes a problem. The evolution of computers and the Internet, for example.

Both are great. However,both also have the potential (and already have) to be very problematic. If we wanted to exercise out intelligence more, we could curn the excesses that lead to the spiral, and maintain the benefits.

The problem, I guess, is that it requires setting up arbitrary limits and definitions to determine what would continue and what would be blocked.