In an age of all-knowing algorithms, how do we choose not to know?
Socrates also said something along the lines of &#x27;I know that I know nothing&#x27;.<p>You can look at your entire upbringing and education as stuff you know with certainty and stuff you were supposed to know, as well as stuff that is &#x27;correct to know&#x27;, but that doesn&#x27;t make it so, nor does it make it completely invincible to change.<p>You can have the date of your death and it can be wrong. You can &#x27;know&#x27; things with near certainty and those things can be wrong too.<p>Choosing to be aware of the fact that your own knowledge will forever be flawed, no matter what technology exists to tempt you into the belief that you can know everything; this is a tricky balance, but it&#x27;s the correct balance.<p>Because, you can&#x27;t know things before you do. You can &#x27;wiggly know&#x27; them, you can be correct in thought a billion times in a row. That doesn&#x27;t mean you don&#x27;t require reality to validate that correctness. You do. You can think thoughts, you can analyze computations, but you can&#x27;t know they are true until they are. This is the only thing I know with certainty, and is my belief that it&#x27;s a necessary way to think in order to maintain sanity.<p>This is especially important when we one begins to have the awareness that some types of AI work as effectively as our own minds do (for certain problems). So what does one do in that instance? Fear it? Meh.<p>Why not just consider it human? Are a million Russian bots really that much scarier than a charismatic politician with a winning smile?<p>I believe fear corrupts judgement far more than knowledge.