Humans: Are we smart enough to [come to] know how smart we are?

12 December 2019 1 2K Report

Quick answer : NO (and why on Earth would you expect we are? (or that we on ourselves, by ourselves, naturally would be?

Vikrant Arya

No at all.

Humans are just commodities.

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