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Your comment is a little hand-wavy and strongly worded ("revolution", "immeasurable", "limitless", "all domains"). Many things have exponential growth - bacter
by xenocyon 6y ago
Your comment is a little hand-wavy and strongly worded ("revolution", "immeasurable", "limitless", "all domains").
Many things have exponential growth - bacterial reproduction, compound interest, certain chemical reactions. It's important to understand that this does not automatically result in miraculous universal transformation, but must be considered in the context of the world we live in. A little humility is always in order.
- mindfulhack 6y agoYour analytical thinking misses the human element. To give an example: Steve Jobs didn't have humility, nor did he shy away from hyperbole. You would have had the same response to his words, but look at what he - literally, in the physical world - achieved. Human motivation - no matter how deluded - is not actually something not to dismiss. It has effects on others, which translates to action. The inputs are not all machines. At least not yet.
- Tainnor 6y agoWhile not wanting to downplay the marketing and design genius of Steve Jobs who created a brand identity so strong that for a while, "smartphone" became synonymous with "Apple", Steve Jobs really stood on the shoulders of giants in terms of innovation. Without the Alan Turings, John von Neumanns, Edgar Dijkstras, Donald Knuths, the researchers at XPARC and Bell Labs, etc., there would never have been a Steve Jobs. He does play a role, but not nearly one as big as all those people that came before him. Some people like to push for progress for progress's sake; others mostly to make money out of it (not saying this is bad!). The latter get more rich but it doesn't mean they're more important.