The Long Shadow of Complexity (w/ David Krakauer)
Uncertain Things
The Cognitive Artifacts of Technology
I'm interested in ancient calculating machines because they bring you a little closer to the essence of the problem and the nature of one's own limitations. We all learn how to use maps when we're quite young, right? And most of us become obsessed with maps at some point in our lives. I think there's something incredibly generous here about that constraint. If we move to a world of entirely of GPS and Google Maps, you would definitely lose some insight into the geometry of the world. You gain something else, practically no doubt. But it's further away from the spatial reckoning of your brain. So make use of these big models, but beware of what you're missing out.
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