now that i’ve committed to the idea of sunk cost fallacy, it’s ironically proving very hard to discard
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Tim Hwang
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co-host, "almost impossible" / author, "subprime attention crisis"
@luis_in_brief hadn’t seen this one, thank you!
🖥️ @omar and i have been talking alot about the intimate, emotional sensation associated with particular parts of the computer experience, and reclaiming this as the core of what makes a computer *a computer*
"the computer is a feeling" is the result:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QbPa3URLo5cp07bi6U-vTFjX_4btORAlwSnSRxEapsk/edit
The Computer is a Feeling
The Computer is a Feeling Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan The computer is a feeling, not a device. By this we mean that what makes a computer a computer has nothing to do with commands, compilers, or even machines. For us, computer is the specific feeling of artifacts that allow for intimate systems...
@tf are in Wired today, talking about the TikTok ban and the retreat from the open web!
that thing where technology people are optimistic enough to believe in building godlike machine intelligence in our lifetime but scoff at the idea of creating a functional government bureaucracy
@maxfenton i regret to inform you that this one was real
@onekade yep yep yep yep
@mmasnick you know it
🧑⚖️ shower thought:
we have model congress competitions, but it’d prob be more educational for kids to have model administrative agency as an extracurricular