Kurzweil against an AI critic: (Humans)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 14:59 (5148 days ago) @ xeno6696

Why do you so value "humility?" Great men (Augustus, Caesar, Leonidas, Xerxes, Constantine, Cato, Leibniz, Newton, Moses of Deleon, Penn Gillette, Justinian, Euler... I can go on???) all took great pride in who they were and what they had done for their people. Humility is a "slave word" for those who value subservience to greatness...-That is a common misunderstanding of the words humility and pride, confusing them with submission and arrogance. Wordnetweb.princeton.edu defines humility as "a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride". This is the trait that I admire. Pride in a job well done is not a bad thing, nor is pride in ones accomplishments, as long as it is not a false or excessive pride, otherwise known as arrogance.