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As a solution developer, I find the most bang for my buck is when I produce solutions for people who come to me with a problem rather than a solution. Imagine
by cheschire 8y ago
As a solution developer, I find the most bang for my buck is when I produce solutions for people who come to me with a problem rather than a solution.
Imagine if Google made you answer the question "Why?" five times before it showed you results. I wonder if a well trained network would produce such accurate results we would no longer need to see a list of results, and could simply hit the lucky button.
But good luck finding a user who's willing to answer "Why?" five times rather than brute-forcing a search engine into their "echo chamber," as you accurately described it.
- james_s_tayler 8y agoWell theres no disagreement from me that what you describe is how it plays out. My caution is that we have found the equivalent of cheap, fast, microwavable meals and we are now consuming them almost exclusively and in 15 ~ 20 years it's going to become painfully obvious what deleterious side-effects arise as a result of that. We can't see it now, so we don't feel the need not to do it, and that simply is what it is, but in time it will act as a control signal that nudges us to modify our behavior. This is both a great and terrifying time to be alive. The 20th century was full of some pretty hefty social experiments and the thing with those were they were obvious and in your face. The 21st century versions are much less obvious and reveal themselves very slowly.