Humility?

The Key to Unleashing Technological Power in Environmental Problem Solving

The key to letting technology make you extremely powerful and able to do more things faster and better I believe is first and foremost humility. You must accept the fact that machines are now in some respects smarter than you are—and then use this to your advantage. I don’t find the possibility of a machine being smarter than me intimidating in the least bit.

Computers can store, process, and transfer more information than I can now—and with machine learning, are already better at certain pattern recognition. EnviroAI is an example. It’s just ok. I’ll run toward this inevitability and not away from it—and use it to humanity’s advantage. Pride in my intellectual capabilities will not be allowed to limit my human potential.

What I’ve come to believe is that humans can do more powerful things that a computer will never be able to do, including the most powerful action in the world … pray. It makes me smile to think that humans might evolve to use this power more in the future as computers perform more of the lower functions.

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@misc{anderson_2020_humility,
  author = {Jed Anderson},
  title  = {Humility?},
  year   = {2020},
  url    = {https://jedanderson.org/posts/humility},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
}

Anderson, J. (2020). Humility?. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/posts/humility

Anderson, Jed. "Humility?." Jed Anderson, July 19, 2020, https://jedanderson.org/posts/humility.