I don't think the world Self-Important means what you think it means. While I'm not religious, these are thinkers whose works are probably the longest surviving works of thought. This is just being facetious.
Imagine you think video games are a waste of time, or that a certain food type shouldn’t be eaten because it’s unhealthy or unclean.
Those are fine opinions to hold personally, but obviously many people may disagree. The self-importance I meant is when you think your opinions are more important than those of others and try to control their behavior.
FWIW— I’ve since edited the post because I think that wording makes it seem unnecessarily negative on my part.
Some people are more perceptive or knowledgable than others. Not all opinions are equal. You can't easily dismiss the idea that one can learn from others.
I don't dispute the existence of "false teachers" or the harm done by fossilized belief systems but your argument doesn't convince me that there's not a baby being tossed out with that bathwater.
Also - many esoteric or philosophical traditions engage with exactly this problem - the tension between the need for a teacher and the fact that many insights can only be arrived at through personal experience. This dichotomy is a huge part of the millenia old debate on such matters.
It's definitely going to get thrown out eventually. 100%. It can't hold a candle to Apple Pay and some exec is gonna convince the higher ups that they need to rebuild it from scratch.
I wouldn't put anything past the company that risked everything on Google+ and then basically abandoned it a few months later when they didn't see the mass exodus they were so delusional in expecting.
Am i missing something? To me google pay does contactless payments so i don't have to carry my card. Hugely useful. What does Apple Pay do that is better?
Disappointing that cancel culture has actually stopped you from educating us on a topic I would be interested about. I knew this was bound to affect me personally some day but I didn't know how to tackle it.
I wrote more in another comment, at the risk of getting canceled. I just don't understand why noticing trends and things about other people is racist. Most things I noticed were things I was jealous of. All people aren't the same, no matter what people push for.
I think the notion that “3D printing will change how we put stuff together” hasn’t really manifested in meaningful ways.
I mean, you can 3D print cakes and buildings. But you could also just, you know, dumb-stack stuff and get the same result.
In the same vein there are many examples of machine learning solutions searching high and low for problems to solve, when it could really be solved by much simpler means.
Anecdotally I once heard a talk on how a local government thought they needed AI to solve housing allocation. They later found was that, for historical reasons, some applications had to go through an unnecessary number of hoops before being accepted. By policy changes alone they eliminated this bottleneck. I wish I could find the case, if it’s published anywhere.
3D Printing is a very apt comparison to ml, but for the exact opposite reason.
It didn't replace the entirety of all production like some people predicted it to, but it has become an extremely valuable tool for quick, low-cost prototyping and small production runs that otherwise wouldn't be economical because of the huge setup cost of traditional manufacturing (like injection molding).
I'm fairly certain that ml will be the same way. Transforming from the magical bullet that we currently want it to be, into just another tool in the kit.
As with 3d printing this process will take some time where some people apply it way too much, while other people won't even consider it at all.
Eventually we will settle on a sweet spot where most people have an understanding of when to use it and when not to.
They are seemingly, or apparently unpolished. Not literally. You can bet that they spent a huge amount of time making sure it looks unpolished but still good.
