Pedro Domingos

And with the advent of social media, Moore's law also applies to the invention of new 'first world problems'.

It's the entropy that occurs because of the solutions. There's always a downside that may occur.

Funny, I have always thought that civilization was started because nomads wanted to cultivate barley and hops for their beer, which has the same effects towards solving and creating problems.

The real issue is that people make more money by managing a problem than by solving it, and that's what create new problems.

True, though I think those problems were already there, it’s only after we fix a prior problem that we realize we have a new one, all the best!

“He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8251510-and-indeed-this-is-the-odd-thing-that-is-continually …