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The stakes were low, albeit infuriating, when it came to buying a car or a new Dell computer. But configuration—on both the sales and manufacturing sides—was just as big of a problem for companies like AT&T and Boeing, whose phone switches (which could theoretically make the number “9-1-1” stop working) and airplanes (which can theoretically fall out of the sky) had billions of potential combinations. “The problem is things get really combinatorial as things get complex, and they go combinatoric,” is an actual sentence I heard Liemandt say with my own ears.
The Software Tycoon Scaling AI Education to a Billion Kids
joincolossus.com
And yet, the most important polarity in American politics in the future will not be between Democrats and Republicans, or even the Professional Managerial Class and Middle America. Because the protocol is where power resides, the struggle that is only now beginning to emerge will be between two protocol elites: the managerial protocol elite of regulation and the technological protocol elite of computer code.
Though it may not be fully understood for many years, the advent of large language models now makes a clash of titans inevitable.
The New Control Society
thenewatlantis.com
In his book, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu argues that taste isn’t just a matter of personal preference; it’s shaped by our social position.
Capital & Taste
notboring.co
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