Waqas Younas
Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.
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Their wordsWe cannot always detach the word "good" from the kind of thing being judged and expect the same standards to apply to other objects.
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Performing tasks associated with a role well is not the same as being good at the role itself.
Their wordsAt most, we can infer that it performs some tasks associated with those roles well, but only in specific situations, possibly not in all. That is not the same as being good at the role itself.
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- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsEstablished shortcuts turn into procedural memory, or muscle memory. When you invert them, you create slips: the user performs a well-learned action and gets the opposite result. In practice, this means more errors, and more time spent correcting them.
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Their wordsPeople with presbyopia or low vision often rely on Command or Control plus and minus repeatedly while reading. Inverting these keys is effectively an accessibility regression.
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- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsSuch progress, however, has also led to more chaos, as technological advances have produced even more terrifying weapons of destruction.
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There is a chance that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity in the next three decades.
Their wordsAI comes with enormous promise, but even the "Godfather of AI" has warned that there is some chance it could wipe out humanity in the next three decades.
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- 11 months earlier
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Their wordsImmortality of Dostoevsky's art is unquestionable; his art will likely continue to live on.
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Their wordsIt's not to say that the rich can't write but, generally speaking, and as Brodsky hints above, a precarious financial condition is often a precondition for great literature, especially one with moral imperatives.
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A certain kind of financial struggle often serves as a catalyst for writers to produce great works.
Their wordsIt seems that a certain kind of financial struggle often serves as a catalyst for writers to produce great works.
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- 6 months earlier
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Their wordsThere is no tool better than writing that highlights unclear thinking.
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Their wordsWriting can strip your thoughts of all ornaments and make them stand naked in light of truth.
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Their wordsThere is no better aim for oneself than dedicating one's life to truth.
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