« cartels of mutually satisfied mediocrities » 👌

It's a musing of mine that scientists may need to have bodies, because scientific intuition about the world requires being in the world, in some non-trivial way. Take Newton's apple - could the intuition of gravitational law have occurred to an intelligence that is not bound in space and time?

One important line may be between occupations that require having a body (the craftsmen) and ones that do not (the analysts). Note that having a body may mean more than having "sensory grounding", i.e. a set of disparate signals coming from sensors.

This is not say there are no painting robots, or self-driving cars; they are just significantly less convincing than artificial financial analysts (even after years of development).

In a report I co-authored with Arthur D. Little, I tried to categorize a few archetypes of intelligence used in big corporations. www.adlittle.com/en/insights/...