1/ While accountants may have invented double-entry bookkeeping to better mind expenses, programmers feel costs with often literal haptic concreteness and even have a notation for expressing them!https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1174838905025134592 …
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2/ Also — and this parts a huge hot take — I don't think there is an arena where efficiency gains reach broader adoption faster than with computers. You ship bits at near-light speed. Fine, the actual limiting process is social, but people share algorithmic discoveries rapidly.
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3/ Parkinson's Law is certainly legit. I mean, you have electron apps for neo-IRC that need a 2015 MBP to run. That is pretty fucking silly. But, they still enable incredible things and allow human brains to do other more difficult ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law …
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4/ As for the ML stuff? Yep — they're wildly inefficient. They're very dumb algorithms relying on brute force power to wander towards better points in a rigidly defined solution space. But, the resulting models, again, allow human brains to do other, more challenging things.
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5/ Yes, the use of these technologies by massive corporations farming our behaviors and monocropping culture (or governments surveilling for basically the same reason) IS a huge problem. But if your solution is proud ignorance, you're ironically just stealing social compute time.
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