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Alan Watts about the loss of privacy we can expect when we become a planetary superorganism with an electronic nervous system https://t.co/kznelHHgis
evi heilbrunn
@evi
Jeffrey Delkin
@jeffreyladd
Hal Varian, by the way, is the person who designed the Google ad auction. And it turned out he was only partially right about “information managers”. We call them influencers. But it was aggregators like Google that did the bulk of the heavy lifting. Computers can scale in ways that people can’t.
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
This “law of accelerating returns” applies to all of technology, indeed to any true evolutionary process, and can be measured with remarkable precision in information based technologies. Also, keep in mind that every point on the exponential growth curves underlying these panoply of technologies (see the graphs below) represents an intense human dr... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
While many tech companies were architected to collect data, they were not necessarily architected to safely store data. Today there’s not just a rift, but a chasm between where data privacy technology, processes, and regulations should be and where they are, thus creating massive amounts of “privacy debt.”
Bessemer Venture Partners • Roadmap: Data Privacy Engineering
Semil Shah
Abie Cohen • 1 card
“Intelligence is the new transistor,” concluded Schiffmann. “It’s a fundamental primitive that you’ll build things on, [and it] will enable all kinds of good things and all kinds of bad things... The goal is just to enable the good over the bad.”