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Reading Paths to Intelligence provides a valuable insight into our current understanding of brain cognition and other approaches to achieving superintelligence. Slightly distorted picture after the onset of ChatGPT or LLMs. Bust still valid.

Started Peak-End rule

* Zero Cost effects- free is different from the little fee
* Influence of arousal - Jekyll and Hyde

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- If people had no memory of past prices, the consumptions of milk & wine would remain essentially the same, as if the prices had not changed.

- In other words, the sensitivity we show to price changes might, in fact, a result of our memory for that prices we have paid in the past and

**our desire for coherence with our past decisions** - not at all a reflection of our true preferences or our level of demand

- Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living.

- Initial prices are arbitrary and can be influenced by responses to random questions; but once those prices are established in our minds, they shape not only what we are willing to pay for an item. == "ARBITRARY COHERENCE"

- naturalist Konrad Lorenz discovered that goslings, upon breaking out of their eggs, become attached to the first moving object they encounter.

- 'God of the gaps' - Charles Coulson.

- For many ancient cultures in India, China and Middle East, religion was not about worshiping a Supernatural Intelligence but precisely the attempt to appreciate the limits of our understanding and the languages.

- Kurzwell talks about the Singularity, a moment when the intelligence of our technology will exceed our human.

-Lord Kevin believed in 1900 that moment had come : 'There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurements'.

- What happens then if we encounter a question that cannot be answered? How does one cope with not knowing?

- Time and again, history reveals the opposite to be the case, this must always acts as a warning that scientific knowledge is PROVISIONAL.

- For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the WILDS OF UNKNOWN.

- Does time exists at all or does it emerge as a consequence of more fundamental concepts.

- The advances of science are extremely intoxicating.
- Often my brain struggles to navigate the science we currently know. Time is running out to know it all.
- Aristotle said understanding how the world works is a basic human needs.

To break the chain of relativity - Decide consciously, reduce the size of the circle.

We focus on the relative advantage of one thing over another, and estimate value accordingly.

Red Queen takes us into through the mind of a Red (division) Girl and how the society makes us what we can never fathom with sprinkles of luck and uncertainty of the world.