Challenge accepted! Some things that I think are underbelieved among my peers and are generally optimistic:https://twitter.com/naval/status/944301966989058048 …
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Technology, both defined broadly and the specific instantiations AppAmaGooBookSoft and the ecosystem the birthed them, is overwhelmingly a force for good in the world.
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The Internet allows people a tremendous amount of leverage, and skill at exploiting that is not equal. That said, it is a great leveler with regards to baseline experiences in society. (Instant communication. Google. Wikipedia. I could go on, for years.)
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Software primarily redeploys knowledge workers between job duties rather than eliminating jobs. AI/ML/robots/“pick the headline” mostly let Industry do lots more with slightly more headcount, not do the same with less. c.f. Employment of accountants since we automated 90% of job
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Wow. So how like chess programs are used by master chess players to enhance their play-making rather than eliminate chess players? As a student, I have limited empirical experience of this phenomenon.
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Chess and games are (IMHO) a poor way to reason about how programming interacts with most domains. A better example is fraud analysis, where you don’t fire 100 analysts when you hire 10 engineers. You promote 20 of them out of the queues to business analyst then 5X volume.
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