“Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust.”
Alternatively, in paraphrase: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
- François-Marie Arouet, Questions sur les miracles (1765)
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“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” (Computers, Communications and the Public Interest, pages 40-41, Martin Greenberger, ed., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.) …unless you saddle yourself with all the problems of making a concrete agent take care of itself in the real world, you will tend to overlook, underestimate, or misconstrue the deepest problems of design -Dan Dennett on the unreliability of simulations and imagination, and hence the need for (a theory-motivated?) robotics (via Tom Stafford, via Tom Walton) “Were they reborn into a modern university, Plato and Aristotle and Leibniz would most suitably take up appointments in the department of computer science.” “Epistemology has traditionally been the study of Human knowledge and rational change of human belief. Android epistemology is the exploration of the space of possible machines and their capacities for knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, desires and for action in accord with their mental states.” -Glymour, C., Hayes, P., and Ford, K. “The Pre-History of Android Epistemology,” in Ford, K., Glymour, C. and Hayes, P. [eds.] 1995. Android Epistemology
This is certainly a pleasant sentiment, but my experience has supported a Peter Principle type understanding of management in the real world. |
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