A friend of mine sent me this article last week thinking I would really like it. I do. The author is talking about AI and the whole startup culture but what he describes goes is far beyond tech. He is describing our culture. He is describing the fiat state ruled world.
This guy is a good writer and its an entertaining read. He has worked in the tech industry for some time.
Grifters, on the other hand, wield the omnitool that they self-aggrandizingly call 'politics'2. That is to say, it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually deliver is highly transferable
They know exactly what their target market is - people who have been given power of other people's money because they've learned how to smile at everything, and know that you can print money by hitching yourself to the next speculative bandwagon.
The AI craze really is like the block chain craze but 100 times worse. Put everything on the block chain. A slow and overly engineered database.
well recordedin doctor's notes. So if the AI is trained on medical textbooks, professor's lectures and historical doctor's notes it will be better than a human in recollection and correlation.