The history of software development
tag > Culture
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‘We look at the present through a rear-view mirror, so that we march backwards into the future' - Marshall McLuhan
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GPUses Christ
"Our age has found a substitute for God: the impersonal calculation. This new god has turned into an idol to whom all men may be sacrificed. A new concept of the sacred & unquestionable is arising: calculability, probability, factuality." ~ Erich Fromm (in "The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology", 1968)
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You can achieve true greatness if you focus fully on one thing... ohh..
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"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Don Marquis
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An interim period where AI exceeds human performance on many cognitive tasks, but this is not common knowledge, and so most people and institutions act like this is not generally the case.
