“Will we really see a time where everything is finally automated or just a continuation of the waves of automation that have been going on for hundreds of years”. This is the underpinning of Walker’s slightly pessimistic outlook on the advances of technology. Walker highlights how automation is only effective when more cost effective than humans – otherwise, it is just pursuing technology for the sake of it. Elon Musk reached a similar conclusion: “excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake”. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
