This reminds me of game design (and especially MMORPG game design) where, while the designers are attempting to offer "meaningful choices", the mindset of the player base makes it so that anything (talent point, piece of gear, specialisation, profession, whatever) is either worthless (and you're an idiot for using it) or it's mandatory (and it's so unfair how much work it requires to obtain). There's no in-between.
Pseudo philosophical drivel dressed up as futurist insight, hidden behind a false, nonsensical physics equivalency that boils down to generic linkedIn style business advice.
> As soon as something is known, it will be exploited until the knowledge becomes useless. In the past, our knowledge accumulated, and our actions were limited. Now, it is exactly the opposite: Our actions can achieve unlimited outcomes, but knowledge decays rapidly.
i dont understand "knowledge decays rapidly". He seems to mean, "knowledge that is novel and may give someone some kind of advantage over other people now decays rapidly", as though knowledge that "everyone has" is somehow useless. that was slippery slope number one, and then
> This might sound paralyzing, but it's actually liberating.
I dont know this author but that kind of phrase is where someone who seemed like a thoughtful philosopher type starts sounding like a techbro declaring "hear me out". no, bad changes that are actually bad are possible and this is sounding a bit like one of them.
> If rigid plans and lasting knowledge are illusions, we are freed from the burden of needing perfect prediction. Instead of trying to master a fixed landscape, the challenge becomes mastering the art of movement on a dancing one.
hoo boy I can just see whole societies being purged with that kind of attitude, and in fact, we are
> And finally, we must hold dearly to what doesn't change: the value of being kind and generous, the benefits of fresh air and sunshine and a nice walk, the importance of friends and family.
This is a nice sentiment but falls pretty hollow with the author's prior ebullience over "the end of knowledge".... as the US government spends every day working to dismantle more and more STEM education and research, all in the name of "science is woke"
it may be the case that humans require some degree of stability, and as possessors of "free will" (deterministic nature of the universe notwithstanding) we have the choice to maintain institutions that are beneficial to humans. we dont actually have to do "everything that's possible no matter what it is immediately right now".
This reminds me of game design (and especially MMORPG game design) where, while the designers are attempting to offer "meaningful choices", the mindset of the player base makes it so that anything (talent point, piece of gear, specialisation, profession, whatever) is either worthless (and you're an idiot for using it) or it's mandatory (and it's so unfair how much work it requires to obtain). There's no in-between.
How does drivel like this reach the frontpage?
Pseudo philosophical drivel dressed up as futurist insight, hidden behind a false, nonsensical physics equivalency that boils down to generic linkedIn style business advice.
If it helps, it only has 4 up votes in the last 2 hours.
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he lost me here:
> As soon as something is known, it will be exploited until the knowledge becomes useless. In the past, our knowledge accumulated, and our actions were limited. Now, it is exactly the opposite: Our actions can achieve unlimited outcomes, but knowledge decays rapidly.
i dont understand "knowledge decays rapidly". He seems to mean, "knowledge that is novel and may give someone some kind of advantage over other people now decays rapidly", as though knowledge that "everyone has" is somehow useless. that was slippery slope number one, and then
> This might sound paralyzing, but it's actually liberating.
I dont know this author but that kind of phrase is where someone who seemed like a thoughtful philosopher type starts sounding like a techbro declaring "hear me out". no, bad changes that are actually bad are possible and this is sounding a bit like one of them.
> If rigid plans and lasting knowledge are illusions, we are freed from the burden of needing perfect prediction. Instead of trying to master a fixed landscape, the challenge becomes mastering the art of movement on a dancing one.
hoo boy I can just see whole societies being purged with that kind of attitude, and in fact, we are
> And finally, we must hold dearly to what doesn't change: the value of being kind and generous, the benefits of fresh air and sunshine and a nice walk, the importance of friends and family.
This is a nice sentiment but falls pretty hollow with the author's prior ebullience over "the end of knowledge".... as the US government spends every day working to dismantle more and more STEM education and research, all in the name of "science is woke"
it may be the case that humans require some degree of stability, and as possessors of "free will" (deterministic nature of the universe notwithstanding) we have the choice to maintain institutions that are beneficial to humans. we dont actually have to do "everything that's possible no matter what it is immediately right now".