Why do those "nonconformists" ultimately change the world? --- E42 Meng Yan in conversation with Wei Qing: The Silent Protagonist, a discussion about outliers, summarized and generated using AI. --- Machines excel at fitting known information, while humans excel at exploring the unknown. In statistics, outliers are those data points that "don't fit in". They deviate from mainstream trends and appear as noise. However, from the perspective of biological evolution, outliers are precisely the source of variance. Without variance, there is no change; Without change, there is no evolution. In nature, gene mutations are outliers, but it is precisely these "errors" that enable species to adapt to their environment. Throughout human history, those who broke the mold—Copernicus, Einstein, Jobs—provided outliers, thus altering the trajectory of civilization. How to create a tool to find "outliers"? Be conscious of adding a bit of "randomness" to your life. For example: Take a different route home: Don't always take the most familiar road. Try a different approach, and you'll see a different view. Meet different people: Are all the people in your social circle the same type? Step outside and talk to people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives. Do something "unprofitable": those explorations that don't yield immediate returns may very well be the seeds of long-term value. The key is not what to do, but to break the inertia. What exactly is the relationship between humans and machines? Machines excel at regression values: calculation, fitting, and optimization. Humans excel at outliers: beliefs, values, and choices that cannot be quantified. The essence of human-machine collaboration: humans use outliers to guide the regression values of machines.
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