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AI, Money, Human Nature and the Problem with Problems

How we define "problems" also defines what we "understand" as a "solution," and if our definition is circular, it's delusional.

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Charles Hugh Smith
Apr 29, 2026
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Readers kindly point out I don’t understand either AI or human nature. I readily confess to having an imperfect understanding of AI and human nature, along with everything else.

One thing I do understand is that “understanding” exists within the confines of an implicit milieu that is typically assumed by those embedded in it to be “the way it is,” i.e. o…

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