We sure spent a lot of time debating semantics for a supposedly economical culture.
I tend to focus on stability, correctness, security as those have concrete human meaning.
All the rest is jargon largely unhelpful to solving problems. Often helpful selling books, finding “consultant” work, and booking speaking fees though.
I predict that commercial profit will dry up as ML ends consumer media creation, re-shoring via high tech manufacturing implodes shipping and retail as on demand production rises to combat the environmental destruction of factories on 24/7.
20-30 year olds now will begin to call the shots politically in 10+, pushing GenX aside where they belong. GenX as a group is pre-info economy and sycophants to inheritance and will have few answers.
20-30 something’s see no future for themselves in this system, and are currently normalizing their platform via the internet.
As it spends its time now making itself irrelevant to the kids, progress elsewhere will give them alternatives and once in power, having spent their lives discussing each other’s inherent value collectively all their lives, they’ll finally just change the fucking rules and police the violent as usual.
Artists can grow flowers to make paint and dig clay out of the ground. We will accept human expression must exist without the industrial convenience applied to all contexts or we risk the species.
The systems I’ve worked in immediately abstract strings, shapes in images, etc, into the mathematical shape and gaps between edges.
If you dig into an arbitrary array in a variety of places, the fields contains coordinates, not “Hi Mom, kids are ok, blah blah”.
It’s measuring the white space in a thing, where everything but the feature you’re currently interested in is white space; what’s between the features I want?
Then comparing that to results of other data structures that had the same white space measuring applied.
Does it not do what you said you do you not want to believe it?
I think the issue is the companies being incredibly disingenuous about how this all works.
Formal language is 5,000 years old. Human intuition for quantitative assessment of hunger, warmth, supply stocks, tool building, etc is much older. IMO human language is noise obscuring obviousness. It’s the desktop metaphor of cognition. “Please internalize my language versus observe for yourself.”
We sure spent a lot of time debating semantics for a supposedly economical culture.
I tend to focus on stability, correctness, security as those have concrete human meaning.
All the rest is jargon largely unhelpful to solving problems. Often helpful selling books, finding “consultant” work, and booking speaking fees though.