François CholletVerified account

A great example that people are always willing to sort through massive amounts of garbage for a few valuable items, as opposed to designing/building them. Vestigial hunter gatherer traits continue to be capitalized upon.

47 yrs ago: "in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients." (attention economy, wikipedia)

What if you created an app, that popped out people's phones. One by one by one. Even for a day. They would just get up and go plant trees.

It’s getting worse, not better.

Hope this becomes outdated: "Now we have the 700,000 best and brightest, and these are the best and brightest from the four corners of the earth. (...) They have the GDP of India to work at. ... I know what their mission is. (...) to sell another fucking Nissan." -@profgalloway

That might not be a good thing, if there are greater dangers & criticism seems outdated & naive. Consider Huawei: https://www.timescolonist.com/a-timeline-of-the-cases-of-meng-wanzhou-and-the-canadians-detained-in-china-1.23564973 … Better, China: https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1084210733745721344 … The cost of freedom may be people wasting their time (being uncompetitive), a hard lesson to learn