It's ironic that we'd have far fewer people being loudly / confidently ignorant if they were comfortable not knowing things (aka being ignorant), instead of being in denial about it.
We seriously need to teach kids epistemology, and make them explicitly ground themselves in robust/established frameworks. Kinda like what IB schools do
Autonomous systems don't make mistakes. That's not to say they're infallible, only that they don't have INTENTIONS. I only mention this because people are already laundering tradeoffs accepted by decision-makers as "mistakes" made by machines. NO! Someone CHOSE to put that incredibly fallible system in place without sufficient checks & balances so they could squeeze every single penny they legally could out of every situation their corrupt lobbying created
Check on your people REGULARLY, especially as they get older
"i don't want your opinion, i just want an audience"
- half of all social media takes
"Clean, but not neat" is temporary. "Neat, but not clean" is a LIFESTYLE
The people who decided food for USAID should rot and millions should starve from SUDDEN food supply disruptions, do not consider themselves violent. The people placing purposefully "dysfunctional" AI in charge of healthcare do not consider themselves violent. The people calling for genocidal crusades & apartheid do not consider themselves violent. The people stripping women of rights with the goal of forcing them into the kitchen under a man's thumb don't think domestic violence is a real crime.
Sysadmin fashionista who calls your favorite vintage blouse a "legacy garment." They say shirts like that were "deprecated years ago," and "Frankly, should be considered harmful."
