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Default to Bureaucracy

From Farnam Street’s Weekly Newsletter (2024-01-21): Left unchecked organizations default to bureaucracy. People default to distraction. It doesn’t take long for 3 priorities to become 10. It doesn’t take long for 2 people in a meeting to become 8. It doesn’t take long to move from people making decisions to committees. The most productive organizations and people spend a lot of energy fighting what feels good in pursuit of what gets results. Read more...
efficiency agile Farnam Street

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it

I have settled on a simple test for judging claims (…) to have explained the nature of consciousness (or any other computational task): if you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it. (…) The field of artificial (general) intelligence has made no progress because there is an unsolved philosophical problem at its heart: we do not understand how creativity works. Once that has been solved, programming it will not be difficult. Read more...
David Deutsch consciousness