the central lie of modernity is that the world is a large complex system that can only be understood via "trends" and "demographic shifts". the jared kushner "just read 25 books and get the guys in the room" is much closer to the Truth Of What's Really Going on Here.
Will Manidisx.comthe central lie of modernity is that the world is a large complex system that can only be understood via "trends" and "demographic shifts". the jared kushner "just read 25 books and get the guys in the room" is much closer to the Truth Of What's Really Going on Here.
These bedazzled methods fall under the category that Futurist Ilkka Tuomi labels as Epistemic Uncertainty , and the argument goes something like this:
However, as Tuomi astutely... See more
“I’m unsure about the answer to this problem, but I can solve it by gathering more data. Once I gather more data related to the problem, I will be able to devise a solution.”
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The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
If, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view, applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don't privilege one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can roll up to something which is of... See more
Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
Random rant on reading, LLMs, education:
Current LLM models could be 100x better and literally nothing would change for most normal people re: knowledge acquisition. We've had the internet and access to every single book on the planet in a blink and still most people don't use this. IT's only accelerated the learnings... See more
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