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The so-called instinct of causality is nothing more than the fear of the unfamiliar, and the attempt at finding something in it which is already known.—It is not a search for causes, but for the familiar.
The Will to Power
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
At one point Musk responded with a very self-aware email. “I am by nature obsessive-compulsive,” he wrote Fricker. “What matters to me is winning, and not in a small way. God knows why… it’s probably rooted in some very disturbing psychoanalytical black hole or neural short circuit.”
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
How Does Technology Impact Society?
Summary:
Yeah, so there's this incredible book. It's very short, very good. It's actually written 50 years ago by a professor at MIT at the time. And it's the name Elting Morrison. And what's great about this book is it was written before the internet, even before personal computers. And so it's got this kind of timeless kind of quality to it. And it's the title of the book is called Men, Machines, and Modern Times. It's this topic. It's basically okay. What exactly is the process by which you do technology, and how does society react? Basically, how does the powers that be or the status quo of society react? And Morrison tells this amazing story.
Transcript:
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Yeah. So there's this incredible book. It's very short, very good. It's actually written 50 years ago by a professor at MIT at the time. And it's named Elting Morrison. And what's great about this book is it was written before the internet, even before personal computers. And so it's got this kind of timeless kind of quality to it. And it's the title of the book is called Men, Machines in Modern Times. It's this topic. It's basically, OK, what exactly is the process by which you do technology, entry society and then how does society react? Basically, how does the powers that be or the status quo of society react? And Morrison tells this amazing story.
Why Technology Still Matters With Marc Andreessen
a16z Podcast
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