Mike S
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Mike S
live upon their wits (or not so much, perhaps, upon the presence of their own wits as upon the absence of wits in other people)
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
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Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis and
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“There was always hope that in talk, talk, talk he could alter the past, conjure the future, and impose an estimable image of himself upon the present.”
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“I guess there’s no hope for me. I’ll have to get used to it. As long as other people are happy, ishkabibble.”
We rejoice when we find remaining in the world any cases in which the individual can see the beginning and the end of his own work.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“Always suspect everybody” -Foxey, Sampson brass’s father
Capital hands at business have made, and do daily make, this axiom their polar star and compass
“Only the paranoid survive” —Andy
Let's pause for a little detour through automation theory here. Automation can augment a worker. We can call this a "centaur" – the worker offloads a repetitive task, or one that requires a high degree of vigilance, or (worst of all) both. They're a human head on a robot body (hence "centaur"). Think of the sensor/vision system in your car that... See more
Pluralistic: “Humans in the loop” must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed (23 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
An AI-assisted radiologist processes fewer chest X-rays every day, costing their employer more, on top of the cost of the AI. That's not what AI companies are selling. They're offering hospitals the power to create reverse centaurs: radiologist-assisted AIs. That's what "human in the loop" means.
What is vitally needed everywhere, in art as much as in ethics, in poetry as much as in politics, is choice; a creative power in the will as well as in the mind. Without that self–limitation of somebody, nothing living will ever see the light.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Power of imagination (orange peels in water instead of wine), Dickens’ The Curiosity Shop