Just read this from Taleb's Twitter:
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Breck Yunits
10/07/2019, 10:24 PMJust read this from Taleb's Twitter:
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Ivan Reese
10/08/2019, 3:03 PM
I like the argument, but don't understand the list. Why list the desktop computer and not smartphones or tablets? I suspect that the desktop computer probably won't exist in its current form for decades to come, and something like the smartphone will ... but that doesn't follow from his argument.
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Ian Rumac
10/08/2019, 3:05 PMI’d say - “Personal computers” are dying, at least in the sense of you having a machine that’s truly yours. They’re moving to become data interfaces, without need for local personalisation.
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Breck Yunits
10/08/2019, 7:02 PMLooks like he updated the final version: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGWzgHLX0AAQbzs?format=jpg&name=large
Breck Yunits
10/08/2019, 7:04 PM@Ivan Reese I think he'd probably list the smart too if he was going for exhaustive and not examples? Or perhaps he views the smartphone as something more akin to a notepad that people have carried around for centuries.
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Al Mo
10/09/2019, 4:14 AMFiat money ... erm I don't think so ...
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Sam Hand
10/09/2019, 8:59 AMWhy on earth is statins on that list
Sam Hand
10/09/2019, 8:59 AMThey're not exactly "highly fragile"
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Breck Yunits
10/09/2019, 6:23 PMWhat do people think of designing languages that would have been great to have 30 years ago? As a design pattern/thought exercise. The more I think about it the more I like it. Last night I experimented with taking a document from the 1600's and saying "what would have been a useful grammar for this type of thing" back then. To try and inform good languages for 2050.
Breck Yunits
10/09/2019, 6:24 PM(Of course, that's 400 years ago, but the idea of designing for the past in order to design for the future is an interesting way to look at it, I think )
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