Arman

The AI doesn't actually have to do your job to replace you, it just has to be really really expensive, so then they have to cut cost somewhere, to maybe maybe replace you (assuming it can do the same thing that you do).

"Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money."

There are two traps one can fall into these days; 1. doing something manually that AI could do for you 2. handing over tasks to AI that you can't even do manually yourself, the manual understanding of automated process is key if one cares about quality.

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." This quoted from Kant, he maintains that abusing an animal stifles our natural capacity for human empathy, so true.

It is faith in authority that allows injustice to grow. It is not just evil individuals, but the millions of people who follow orders without question who make large-scale harm possible. Justice requires personal responsibility, not blind obedience.

Sometimes the most powerful design choice is knowing when not to add more elements

We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective. – Kurt Vonnegut

The point of reading #books is to invoke an internal transformation, rather than educating oneself on some collection of facts, remembering the details of books is not important, the memory of the book is retained in the transformation, not in your mind as a collection of facts.

“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”

We are all riding on a huge bus speeding towards a cliff, and everybody is arguing about where they sit.

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." —Malcolm X

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

The racist xenophobia that is on the rise isn't new, every fascist project in history has needed to create a chosen people and a barbaric enemy to justify their anti-human politics.

How to Choose a #Coding Conventions Tailored to Your Team’s Needs: hamidmosalla.com/2024/05/18/…

Maturity involves not just physical or intellectual growth, but also an evolution in understanding, empathy, and perspective.

“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ” ― Martin Heidegger

Totalitarian regimes always go after the marginalized, minorities, and outsiders when things they screw up like the economy or wars go horribly wrong.

Just Blogged: Rethinking Knowledge and Learning in the Age of AI hamidmosalla.com/2023/11/04/… #ai #learning #artificialintelligence #future

There's nothing more agreeable in life than making peace with status quo and yet, nothing more corrupting.