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Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution — and it should be. Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.
Art & Fear
David Bayles, Ted Orland
“Life is not a game of chess, it doesn’t reward strategy – it rewards repetition and effort.”
"I've Spent My Whole Life Competing With People Like You"
Kris Abdelmessih
But of course, if our ancestors needed to evolve brains that were good at cheater-detection, it’s because their peers were routinely trying to cheat them—and those peers were also our ancestors. Thus early humans (and protohumans) were locked in an evolutionary arms race, pitting the skills of some at cheating against the skills of others at detecting cheating.
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
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