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patcon • today at 6:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I wonder if feeling and intuition will become the most prized, once explaining and sophistry toward any conclusion becomes something any bot can do...?

Right now, we think of feeling as second class, but I wonder if that's more because we have let it go feral, and left it unprotected from predatory actors and systems -- advertising, consumerism, even politics. We don't protect our minds from attacks on our feeling systems (e.g., we don't cover therapy as a public health measure), and so maybe we've just gotten used to giving a pretty poor assessment of its capacity.

If we institutionalized protection of intuition like we protect our ability to reason, maybe we would think more highly of that part of ourselves...


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augment_me • today at 6:30 PM

Intuition is just latent data processing, can be done by machines.

Feeling is a steering of the processing, I don't really see how it will help you accumulate power, resources or status compared to just processing.