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we use the term “superintelligence” to refer to intellects that greatly outperform the best current human minds across many very general cognitive domains.
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
My description of what makes people perform relies heavily on Abraham Maslow’s theory of motivation, simply because my own observations of working life confirm Maslow’s concepts. For Maslow, motivation is closely tied to the idea of needs, which cause people to have drives, which in turn result in motivation. A need once satisfied stops being a need and therefore stops being a source of motivation. Simply put, if we are to create and maintain a high degree of motivation, we must keep some needs unsatisfied at all times.
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
It would be easy to make a list of the chores we expected our children to do and the way we expected them to be done, but what would he really be learning? Was our ultimate goal to teach him how to make a bed perfectly, or was it something deeper—teaching him how to navigate living in a shared space with others? And if the latter, why would I focus on a well-made bed? Parents often assign kids tasks, like setting the table, something that comes with rigid standards (“Napkin on the left under the fork, knives on the right, then plates, then glasses”); but rarely do we ask our kids to do things like figure out how to plant a vegetable garden in our yard, how to organize the space in the mudroom that is so messy no one can find what they are looking for, or even how to plan for a summer of no school with two working parents. I’m not suggesting parents do away with the more prescriptive tasks that simply need to get done, but we so rarely stop to ask what it is we really want our kids to learn.
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