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screenshot from my blog post (https://www.onceupondata.com/post/2023-04-07-ai-hype-large-language-models-simulmatics/) including a quote: In twenty-first-century Silicon Valley, the meaninglessness of the past and the uselessness of history became articles of faith, gleefully performed arrogance. “The only thing that matters is the future,” said the Google and Uber self-driving car designer Anthony Levandowski in 2018. “I don’t even know why we study history. It’s entertaining, I guessthe dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution and stuff like that. But what already happened doesn’t really matter. You don’t need to know history to build on what they made. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow.” Jill Lepore IF THEN: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

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screenshot from my blog post (https://www.onceupondata.com/post/2023-04-07-ai-hype-large-language-models-simulmatics/) including a quote: In twenty-first-century Silicon Valley, the meaninglessness of the past and the uselessness of history became articles of faith, gleefully performed arrogance. “The only thing that matters is the future,” said the Google and Uber self-driving car designer Anthony Levandowski in 2018. “I don’t even know why we study history. It’s entertaining, I guessthe dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution and stuff like that. But what already happened doesn’t really matter. You don’t need to know history to build on what they made. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow.” Jill Lepore IF THEN: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
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It is sad how many people in #tech proudly express their disinterest in politics, history and social sciences although tech advancements have always been intertwined with wars, politics and social changes.
https://www.onceupondata.com/post/2023-04-07-ai-hype-large-language-models-simulmatics/

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