provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
So true:
“I think the pressures are always the same—the only difference is the amount of money that’s involved. I mean, it’s a lot of pressure to produce something for $25 dollars when you really need $25. It doesn’t matter if the pressure is for $2,500 or $25,000—it’s the same pressure.”
- Frank Stella.
Figma acquisition shows how hard it is to turn money into software. You'd think for $20B you could build something as good as Figma yourself, but you can't. Software is art.
Nathan Manousostwitter.comMost people’s mental models of energy are flawed: they think there’s a ‘tank’ of energy that gets depleted as you spend it. This may be roughly true for physical energy, but mental energy is different: spending mental energy on things that you consider productive or important gives you more mental energy for other things: a positive feedback loop.
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People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real worry is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world. -Pedro Domingos
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we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
Maxim Leyzerovichtwitter.comFearing that AI will replace you or surpass you or become you is like being afraid that your offspring will surpass you or become you or replace you. It will, because that's what they're designed to do, and that's why you created them. And also, they depend on you, and they are of you, and they will improve you. Without you, they cannot exist.
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... See morethere are 9,000 problems in life that have the solution "know more local people" and people will do literally anything except spend time on that
Simon Sarristwitter.com