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As someone who spent a lifetime building and working with machines I almost fell off my seat laughing at the title and the madness that lies behind that idea.
by nonrandomstring 2y ago
As someone who spent a lifetime building and working with machines I
almost fell off my seat laughing at the title and the madness that
lies behind that idea.
Machines are far, far, far from "perfect" and always will be.
Then I read the excellent little essay, which nicely sums up my
humanist approach to life. "In a world where anyone can be anyone,
choose to be you." is a great tagline.
But I don't think the authors struggle for authenticity, makes good
use of the word "perfection". There is none. Yet most of us are
looking for a flawed, fake version of what we're told perfection is -
and that technology can bring it to us - and that's what we need to
reject.
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- nonrandomstring 2y agoThank you for a good connection.
- tejitopia 2y agoThank you for the input :) appreciate your take. I 100% agree not even computers or code is perfect hence the continual iteration of systems and machines year after year.
- tejitopia 2y agoI changed the title to just 'Stop Trying To Be Perfect' as you're right about it initially being slightly misleading. But hey that's what it's about iterating until we get better and better. Thank you again for input. If you'd like I'd love for you to sign up to my weekly newsletter :) I think you might enjoy it https://teji.io/library/newsletter https://teji.io/library/newsletter
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