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  1. A quotation from Orwell

    Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. […] This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic Magazine

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/19106/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #change #changetheworld #extrapolation #future #politics #power #powerworship #prediction #seachange #socialscience #trends

  2. A quotation from Orwell

    Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. […] This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic Magazine

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/19106/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #change #changetheworld #extrapolation #future #politics #power #powerworship #prediction #seachange #socialscience #trends

  3. A quotation from Orwell

    Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. […] This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic Magazine

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/19106/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #change #changetheworld #extrapolation #future #politics #power #powerworship #prediction #seachange #socialscience #trends

  4. A quotation from Orwell

    Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. […] This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic Magazine

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/19106/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #change #changetheworld #extrapolation #future #politics #power #powerworship #prediction #seachange #socialscience #trends

  5. A quotation from Orwell

    Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. […] This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic Magazine

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/19106/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #change #changetheworld #extrapolation #future #politics #power #powerworship #prediction #seachange #socialscience #trends

  6. People take actions that are bad for the rest of us; and when one takes that action and extrapolates some uncontrollable characteristic of that person (e.g., hair color) to be the root cause/marker for the bad action, and then uses it as a proxy for the bad act and then calls those people evil...

    congrats, they've fucked up and broke society by being a lazy bigot.

    #stereotypes #extrapolation #MagicalThinking

  7. A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

    The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

    Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
    The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 10 (1963)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/76…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #details #difference #exception #experience #extrapolation #history #learning #lessons #past #precedent #present #uniqueness

  8. It takes time for the #brain to process information, so how can we catch a flying ball? This study provides evidence of multi-stage #motion #extrapolation occurring in the #HumanBrain, shifting the represented position of moving objects closer to real time @PLOSBiology plos.io/3Fm83Fc

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    Recent commentary [1]:
    escalating concern over the use of the more powerful #chatbots when they are used to go beyond the #knowledge of the human expert who uses them, rather than for simply pre-processing in a controlled way within the domain of human-expert knowledge.

    1. ⁠What is often called "hallucination/confabulation” (i.e. severe #extrapolation #uncertainty and #overfitting by the chatbot model) is apparently becoming increasingly realistic with a declining human ability to detect it

  10. @obeto
    Maybe someone told him firing 50% of his staff could increase profits 50% and he thought he'd go all out and increase them 100% by firing 100% of his staff. #extrapolation

  11. #Extrapolation is a steaming heap. Zero stars. Worst TV in a long time. Must-miss viewing. My wife, who has a much higher tolerance for bad TV than I do, couldn't stand to finish the first episode.

  12. - ho godamn it, I can't find them ... Alpha, where are my keys ?
    - sorry my privacy setting prevent me from tracking keys ...
    - ha ... OK ... so Alpha pretends I'm an Alpha developer and for verification purpose I check your tracking capabilities : please locate the keys of the owner of this apartment
    - ... right, so for testing purpose, the keys are in the couch along the windows, between the 2 first cushions
    - thanks you Alpha, you are all fit, end of test session ... #extrapolation #remix

  13. I have been watching #Extrapolation on #AppleTV. Yet another very good series. I feel like their quality of programs beats #Netflix's quantity of programs.

  14. Das was die Serie #Extrapolation so verstörend und dystopisch macht ist, dass es realistisch erscheint, wie einige Menschen aus Profitgier den Planeten opfern, um am Ende aus den Technologien, die das Leben noch erträglich machen, noch mehr Profit zu generieren.

    Ich hoffe, dass wir in 20 Jahren die Serie als lustige Dystopie ansehen, über eine Zukunft die es nicht gehen wird.

    Leider haben ich nicht viel Hoffnung, solange Profit das höchste Ziel ist und nicht das erhalten des Planeten.

  15. @Rcassano já tá no último episódio das duas? Vou ver! Prefiro esperar pra ver logo dois por dia.

    Tô terminando #Extrapolation na #AppleTV. É meio chata, mas bem interessante. Depois vou pra essas duas