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Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; [Unix] is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river.
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We can summarize the difference between the micro- and macroeconomic impacts of AI in this way: Companies have the choice of maintaining their current cognition inputs and use AIs to lower costs (I believe this is a trap — you’re just making time until the next category-redefining high-cognition competitor to wipe you out — but I understand the temptation) or of seeking competitive advantages through (unprecedentedly) high-cognition goods and services.
AI and the Macroeconomics of Brains
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Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known as Shikinen sengu, or simply sengu. Every 20 years exact copies of Naiku, Geku, and 14 other shrines are built on empty sites next to the existing structures, after which the old structures are torn down. Altogether 65 buildings, bridges, fences, and other structures are rebuilt this way. This reconstruction at Jingu has taken place every 20 years (with some interruptions) for over 1300 years, since the first sengu took place around 690 AD.
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