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The purpose of intelligence is to help us make decisions. As civilization grew more complex, education became increasingly devoted to solving technical puzzles. A child had to spend years studying before we trusted them with meaningful resources. Today, AI gives a ten-year-old an Einstein on call—without the years of study. But access to answers does not give the kid the judgment to use those capabilities wisely. Education must develop that judgment through the humanities and social sciences. We may return to an ancient ambition: people envision the future, while machines build it. Nostalghia (1983) by Andrei Tarkovsky Our brains help us survive. We use them to find food, to escape a predator, to chase prey, to find a partner on Tinder, and to order pizza. We call this intelligence. The official history of our civilization teaches us: we know far more than our ancestors. They definitely didn’t know how to use Tinder. Moreover, the speed of knowledge growth keeps increasing. Scientific…

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