The most interesting part of this article, to me, was to see the author struggling with their own ideological commitment to tech utopiani...
The most interesting part of this article, to me, was to see the author struggling with their own ideological commitment to tech utopianism (or technological solutionism or whatever you want to call it) in such an open way. An article full of examples and discussion of why her beliefs were misguided, but then doubling down on them at the end. It's a very human thing to do but it's still a bit shocking to see someone lay it out so plainly: "We are constantly promised X and every time we get Y instead. In fact, our society basically guarantees Y will happen. Please promise me X again without changing anything and maybe this time Y won't happen because ... wanting it?" We tech people will really build up some twisted logic and ignore a lot of evidence to avoid acknowledging social problems and avoid any suggestion of hard work needed in that arena won't we?
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I hate that folks recommend random extensions.
NewThis is my biggest problem with agents, they constantly defensively code for cases that have no chance of happening and in most cases a p...
I wish there was something like LEAN for biology.
The issue is really the extreme difficulty of programming them, especially for anything sequential (rather than combinatorial).
I probably could have beared with it if it was only limited to programming, but it showing up in creative fields has made me feel all sor...
I hate that I'm in deep enough to know what you mean.
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The most interesting part of this article, to me, was to see the author struggling with their own ideological commitment to tech utopiani...
The most interesting part of this article, to me, was to see the author struggling with their own ideological commitment to tech utopianism (or technological solutionism or whatever you want to call it) in such an open way. An article full of examples and discussion of why her beliefs were misguided, but then doubling down on them at the end. It's a very human thing to do but it's still a bit shocking to see someone lay it out so plainly: "We are constantly promised X and every time we get Y instead. In fact, our society basically guarantees Y will happen. Please promise me X again without changing anything and maybe this time Y won't happen because ... wanting it?" We tech people will really build up some twisted logic and ignore a lot of evidence to avoid acknowledging social problems and avoid any suggestion of hard work needed in that arena won't we?
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