Interesting critique to the most idealist/abstract...
# linking-togetherm
Mariano Guerra
12/28/2021, 1:51 PM
Interesting critique to the most idealist/abstract side of ourselves 🙂
https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1475769364456501250
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dnmfarrell
12/28/2021, 8:09 PMKay once attributed the slowdown in computers to a Butler Lampson quote, something like operating systems have gotten 5000x slower, largely negating hardware gains. But I could never find the source for it. That claim does seem plausible to me; my laptop (seems to) take as long to boot now as my desktop did 20 years ago. Maybe I'll buy Dan's patreon to get the details.
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Eric Gade
12/30/2021, 4:33 PMIt’s entirely possible that Kay’s vision was off
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Eric Gade
12/30/2021, 4:33 PMThe problem is that we don’t have the conceptual framework for evaluating whether or not this is the case
Eric Gade
12/30/2021, 4:34 PMHis vision is so tied to the concept of conventional literacy and its effects that you’d have to be able to say something concrete about what conventional literacy actually is (and therefore what “literacy-like” technologies are, if anything)
Eric Gade
12/30/2021, 4:35 PMIt turns out that’s really difficult. Empirically, Scriber and Cole were the only ones to take a shot at it and it was a mixed bag. There hasn’t been much work on the psychology part of it since the 70s as far as I know
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shalabh
01/01/2022, 7:33 PMWhat does it mean for a vision to be "off"?