#epistemology #humans Created at 010623 # [Anonymous feedback](https://www.admonymous.co/louis030195) # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought Last modified date: 010623 Commit: 0 # Related - [[Simulation is intelligence|simulation]] # Conversation simulation Smartest writers have something in common, they [[Simulation is intelligence|simulate]] [[Conversation|conversation]]s. For example: - [[Nassim Taleb]] -> [[Fat Tony]] - [[Douglas Hofstadter - I Am a Strange Loop|Douglas Hofstadter]] -> [[Zeno]] - [[David Deutsch]] -> [[Socrates]], etc - [[Einstein]] -> [[Thought experiment]] - [[Nietzsche]] -> [[Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra|Thus Spake Zarathustra]] Just as [[AlphaGo]] was an [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] that learned to become better than the best human at the game Go by playing against itself, the most intelligent humans expand their [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] using simulation