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Over the last 6 months we’ve been developing our first operational vehicle - The Poseidon Seagull https://t.co/Btw9eyLjRM
David Zagaynovx.com
AI and the Internet are different phenomena.
The internet increased the leverage of computers by connecting them to other computers. Amplifies things that benefit from wider distribution. Network effects.
LLMs are stateless calculators (computers). Amplifies things that have a lot of computational complexity. Quick and Reliable decision making.
“It shouldn’t be like this [illegible/complex/chaotic]”
But not only is illegibility an acceptable trait of optimal systems. It is a trait that all systems optimized against complex realities will tend towards. The real world is complex and extremely high-dimensional. When we see a successful company that’s chaotic, we shouldn’t think: “wow, it succeeded despite chaos!”, we should think: “Of course! This is what a complex, optimized system looks like: an illegible forest.”
There are a lot of approaches to organization design, but none are reliable and construct-valid. It ignores how personhood and work are intertwined. In addition, the organization isn't a self-aware social singularity, so employees are differentiated as futuristic cogs who 'energize' themselves autonomously. A strategy that can only focus on one... See more
Nathan Snyder • The Problem with Organization Design
The maps of the world drawn by the medieval cartographers were so hopelessly inaccurate, so filled with factual error, that they elicit condescending smiles today when almost the entire surface of the earth has been charted. Yet the great explorers could never have discovered the New World without them. Nor could the better, more accurate maps of
... See moreAlvin Toffler • Future Shock
this is the bortle scale. it's used to measure how dark the night sky is in a given place. until relatively recently in human history i imagine every human being who ever lived could see a bortle 1 sky every night of their lives, weather permitting. i personally have never seen darker than bortle 4 in my entire life, and that only happened once.... See more
The lack of density in most of the Western United States is made up for by the vibrance of the night sky. It's hard to appreciate the beauty hiding in the darkness until you're truly away from the lights.
Amazing things happened when geolocation was democratized. What does the future hold when that happens with intelligence?
Excerpt: “When truly transformative technology becomes accessible, it's hard to imagine how things will change - only that they absolutely will. The release of GPS to consumers was a similar moment - it would have been hard to predict Uber, Doordash and the creation of the gig economy from that final piece being unlocked: accurate location finding and routing anywhere in the world.“