Kurzweil against an AI critic: (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 23:40 (4957 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

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...
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> 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.-We should take this offline perhaps--but I just don't see it as a virtue. A humble person is "one who demonstrates humility." Humility is this:-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humility-"The term "humility" comes from the Latin word humilitas, a noun related to the adjective humilis, which may be translated as "humble", but also as "low", "from the earth", or "humid", since it derives in turns from humus (earth)"-It's also termed as "egolessness," but aren't the things that make great men (or women) exactly that trait that values the self?

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"