I used to think it was my civic duty to follow the news and be on top of everything happening. The older I get, the more I think that’s a waste of time!
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I’ll quote a sage of an economist here, Thomas Babington Macauley:
“Hence it is that, though in every age everybody knows that up to his own time progressive improvement has been taking place, nobody seems to reckon on any improvement during the next generation. We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all who came before us, and with just as much apparent reason. … On what principle is it that, when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?”
FYI, that quote is from 1830. He spoke mainly of economics, but I think it applies to a lot of other areas as well, AI included.
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