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Advancing humanity (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 38 points 23 hours ago* (1 child)

We almost certainly have 1,000 Einsteins and 1,000 Mozarts alive today. A relevant quote from 1979:

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

-Stephen Jay Gould

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  • [–] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    I remember a talk by a Microsoft VP who said that a very optimistic estimate would be that we were using human intelligence and creativity at maybe 5% efficiency. The actual number is likely much lower than that.

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  • [–] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    That is pseudo science and a really stupid take. Our brain is expensive as fuck since the moment of conception, born realy early and mostly under developed because of Our fucking big head. The whole evolution says that we animals use it or loose it, let that be tails, guils or brain power.

    If we didnt use the whole brain it would be cut off for efficiency.

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