Sirnesto
@sirnesto
Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.
Sirnesto
“You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”
– Ram Dass
– Ram Dass
Tina Roth Eisenberg • Part of The Dance
"but we also have the advantage of … we don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not actually a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality. And we aren’t Big Tech." (Andrew Deck, Signal President Meredith Whittaker on Resisting Government Threats to Privacy)
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the
... See moreTed Chiang • Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker
