MAPLE Tales

A Very Brief Account of WW2

In the early spring at MAPLE in 2024, Forall was teaching a course called Buddhism for AI. Approaching half way through the course, partly focused on the history of the rise of intelligence on this planet, we came to a section of human history focusing on the religious wars among sects of Humanists known as WW2. The warring sects included: liberal humanism, communist humanism, and evolutionary humanism.

He told us that the sect that won did so because they used more intelligence to make more machines.