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A new technology is judged against perfection rather than against the thing it would replace, which is why it always comes up short.
Drawn from what Paul Bloom said
What Paul Bloom actually said
- Paul Bloom Psychologist at the University of Toronto and professor emeritus at Yale
The second failure of rationality is a status quo bias: an unseemly attachment to the way things currently are; an irrational overweighing of the cost of the new. We effectively end up comparing a new technology to perfection, so it’s no wonder it comes up short.
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↗Death by AIsmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net
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