Relative Importance
People with ADD/ADHD are very good at switching up relative importance.
From an outsider's perspective, it looks like they are easily distracted. They start with the laundry, and five minutes later, they’re doing something entirely different. That’s not because they’re stupid. The brain works based on relative importance—constantly weighing what matters most and then making new decisions accordingly.
In those five minutes, every single particle in the universe has shifted position. So, they make a new decision based on updated parameters.
In other words: they work in bigger circles.
For instance:
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Laundry
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Attic
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Daydreaming
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Calling someone
Whereas a ‘normal’ person might do:
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Laundry
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Laundry
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Laundry
But that’s only what you observe. A ‘normal’ person is probably daydreaming part of the time too.
AI & the Future
There are two scenarios:
A. If AI is truly more intelligent, it won’t be wiping out the planet.
B. If it kills all humans and renders us useless, it wasn’t intelligent in the first place.
So, the fear that we might create something more intelligent than ourselves and that it will destroy everything on this planet is not grounded. That’s never going to happen.
The real question, of course, is what intelligence actually is, since we are the ones wiping out everything on this planet. If you see intelligence as balance and sustainability—understanding that your decisions impact all other decisions—you could seriously argue that we are not intelligent ourselves.
Comparing intelligence through board games is ridiculous. The reason we don’t beat computers at chess is because, for us, there are also other things to think about while playing. Our thoughts and feelings jump from A to B to Z because our priorities and emotional context can shift in a matter of seconds.
No matter how important you think chess is (for what it’s worth: I love chess), when the world is burning, you're going to stop playing. Because the relative importance of things is constantly changing.