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Moravec’s paradox: machines and humans frequently have opposite strengths and weaknesses.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
On Tubules and Quantum Computing
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Theoretical physicist
Timothy Butler • Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path
Krause's isn't a canny operator who roots out waste: he's a guy who tears out all the wiring and then grudgingly restores the minimum needed to keep the machine running (no wonder Musk loves him, this is the Twitter playbook)
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
West and his team were delighted to discover that Kleiber’s negative quarter-power scaling governed the energy and transportation growth of city living.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
As with the Mechanical Turk, the human persists within the machine
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
Are price and complexity coming down, and if so how fast?