Excellent pushback on the value-neutral tech myth. The idea that technical architeture carries embedded intent makes sense when you think about defaults, friction points, and what gets surfaced vs buried. I've seen this play out realy at companies where early design choices around data access shaped culture way more than any mission statement ever could.
Thank you so much for this. I have been involved in similar chain of thoughts for the past few months and really resonated with most of the stuff here.
I believe that the progress of humanity needs more than just technology. What we need are ideas of social change, economics, governance and politics IN ADDITION TO the technology to understand where we go forward.
What is the ultimate aim of humanity? What is the direction we are heading towards? Having an understanding of where we wanna go further gives us the understanding of what needs to be built. And the answer to this “where” is built on pillars of social science, philosophy, economics etc. Technology has the ability to take us to this “where” but the very definition of this is built on these pillars.
Great article and advice. It's missing one question for me (which I am currently reconnecting).
What is your spark? What was the event or experience that directed you down this path? This should be answered with what feels right in the moment. It is not an intellectual exercise.
And how do you maintain your connection to that energy?
Great interview- substantial responses. Last week I prompted Perplexity to share the two countries that best captured Adam Smith’s intersecting philosophy of competition and its fruits via markets- embodied in Wealth of Nations and his social wellbeing philosophy via his other seminal work -The Theory of Moral Sentiments: The result was Sweden and Singapore🥸 Your thoughts?
1. What is intelligence? How does it work? What does understanding intelligence show about us?
2. It's the future where we have a teacher/assistant from early days, where our personal and collective progress is efficient and meaninful.
3. Intelligence is not about statistical methods or logic. Similarities are not the way to go. Neither are point-accurate measurements.
4. The game 20 Questions! Einstein's definition of insanity. Heraclitus' quote about a man and a river.
5. To me human flourishing is a certainty about future generations - that they will live on a planet with clean environment, healthy ecosystems, non-endangered biodiversity. AI may help with long-term thinking, planning, and acting.
6. Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman.
7. Humans are dangerous for themselves.
8. Twitter. I follow some people who are a reliable source of challenges for my thinking process.
9. Gary Marcus. He is right about criticizing ML, DL, and LLMs. The only thing is that he doesn't offer a reasonable alternative. Well, I do.
Excellent pushback on the value-neutral tech myth. The idea that technical architeture carries embedded intent makes sense when you think about defaults, friction points, and what gets surfaced vs buried. I've seen this play out realy at companies where early design choices around data access shaped culture way more than any mission statement ever could.
Thank you so much for this. I have been involved in similar chain of thoughts for the past few months and really resonated with most of the stuff here.
I believe that the progress of humanity needs more than just technology. What we need are ideas of social change, economics, governance and politics IN ADDITION TO the technology to understand where we go forward.
What is the ultimate aim of humanity? What is the direction we are heading towards? Having an understanding of where we wanna go further gives us the understanding of what needs to be built. And the answer to this “where” is built on pillars of social science, philosophy, economics etc. Technology has the ability to take us to this “where” but the very definition of this is built on these pillars.
Great article and advice. It's missing one question for me (which I am currently reconnecting).
What is your spark? What was the event or experience that directed you down this path? This should be answered with what feels right in the moment. It is not an intellectual exercise.
And how do you maintain your connection to that energy?
Great interview- substantial responses. Last week I prompted Perplexity to share the two countries that best captured Adam Smith’s intersecting philosophy of competition and its fruits via markets- embodied in Wealth of Nations and his social wellbeing philosophy via his other seminal work -The Theory of Moral Sentiments: The result was Sweden and Singapore🥸 Your thoughts?
1. What is intelligence? How does it work? What does understanding intelligence show about us?
2. It's the future where we have a teacher/assistant from early days, where our personal and collective progress is efficient and meaninful.
3. Intelligence is not about statistical methods or logic. Similarities are not the way to go. Neither are point-accurate measurements.
4. The game 20 Questions! Einstein's definition of insanity. Heraclitus' quote about a man and a river.
5. To me human flourishing is a certainty about future generations - that they will live on a planet with clean environment, healthy ecosystems, non-endangered biodiversity. AI may help with long-term thinking, planning, and acting.
6. Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman.
7. Humans are dangerous for themselves.
8. Twitter. I follow some people who are a reliable source of challenges for my thinking process.
9. Gary Marcus. He is right about criticizing ML, DL, and LLMs. The only thing is that he doesn't offer a reasonable alternative. Well, I do.