Joseph Arcila
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AI is a prediction technology, predictions are inputs to decision making, and economics provides a perfect framework for understanding the trade-offs underlying any decision.
“recognize simplicity”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“Trying to learn from customer conversations is like excavating a delicate archaeological site. The truth is down there somewhere, but it’s fragile. While each blow with your shovel gets you closer to the truth, you’re liable to smash it into a million little pieces if you use too blunt an instrument.”
― The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
― The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
“It is not ignorance”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“automation has to be scaled back. What is being automated, he argues, are more routine situations, so you require human interventions for more extreme situations. If the way you learn to deal with the extreme is by having a great feel for the ordinary, therein lies a problem.”
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
“The Tao that can be understood is not the eternal, cosmic Tao, just as an idea that can be expressed in words is not the infinite idea. And yet this ineffable Tao is the source of all spirit and matter; expressing itself, it is the mother of all created things.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
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