Cognitive sovereignty
Investing in your brain is the future
Having access to knowledge on an external server does not equal being intelligent. Having ‘taste’—the new Silicon Valley buzzword for ‘good ideas’—comes from storing and processing at least part of that knowledge in your brain. Point is, developing your organic chip semiconductors is the future.
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With the rise of AI, a new crop of Silicon Valley ‘founders’ believes that having ‘taste’ alone is enough to build a business, because the machines will take care of implementation. A tech company with a workforce requiring no salaries, no health insurance, no life-work balance, no holidays, no sick leave—this has been an investor wet dream for decades.
But breakthroughs don’t come from connecting zeroes and ones. They from connecting neurons. To have ‘taste’ or ‘good ideas’ humans must nurture their brains through learning, processing, and internalizing knowledge.
Most business ideas are worthless without execution. And proper execution is only possible with an intelligent workforce capable of coming up with innovative solutions based on the knowledge they have stored and processed in their brains.
As the Silicon Valley moguls continue pouring their fortunes into artificial intelligence, we should go all-in on developing our brains. Because organic semiconductors and data centres might still be the future.
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