Science & tech can be like that. Millions of lines of information, but absent basic human wisdom. To live, it's not enough to be EFFICIENT.
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Without compassion, empathy, ethics, connection → reality is meaningless. Invention is just ONE METRIC, one vector, in a complex universe.
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My favorite prof in college made people cry. He tore apart our "amazing" essays, found logic errors, filled precious compositions w/RED INK.
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I am *forever* grateful to a demanding mentor who taught me humility. Who made me not just a better writer: A BETTER HUMAN.
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Unlike the shocked freshmen & tearstained Hemingways → I adored having completely honest feedback that stripped away pretense & illogic.
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Rather than build a Palo Alto tech-fetish hubris mill echo chamber, I HIGHLY recommend, for society's sake, you wind-tunnel test yourself...
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...examine your monstrous wax Icarus feathers, because more than any single other manmade thing in the world, technology *shapes* society.
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If you are pleased with the way reality is operating, today on December 10, 2016, then go ahead and tell Miyazaki to speak more softly.
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Maria Chong Retweeted Maria Chong
Thomas Merton advocated silence, empathy, self-examination, interiority → things that restrain, illuminate, heal.https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/807631135853264896 …
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If we humans are just calcium levers, enzymes, mitochondria, electric impulses → I suppose none of this matters & Merton/Miyazaki are fools.
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is that there is _tremendous_ meaning in the exact pattern of arrangement.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
I know as a science-lover, I'm probably the exception. But I believe there is more than just physicality/material things.
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Maybe it's dimensionality, maybe it's quantum structure, maybe there are invisible strings. Or apricot jelly. Or God.
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