Military and First Responders of all flavors are fully aware of a character known as “The Good Idea Fairy.” (GIF) This guy is often displayed as a character that looks like Bruce Willis in Die Hard, but with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth, a tutu, and fairy wings.
"On the other hand, if what you want someone to do is “gray area” shit, if it might not be quite fully legal, you do NOT write it down, you don’t send a memo, and for Gods’ sake do not send an email."
Problem is, one of the side effects of all that technology is that you get dependent on the tech to do your remembering for you. And every time we added something, from clay tablets on up, our innate capacity to remember has gone down.
Now with AI and cloud, we've poured all of our data into one big reservoir, and all someone has to do is poison that one source with false data, and no one may remember (or be able to retrieve the unpoisoned water).
you're not wrong. I catch myself doing things like let the computer figure the angle, on a shed roof, even though I know how to do trig in my head, because "lazy"
I love that visualization of the GIF.
"On the other hand, if what you want someone to do is “gray area” shit, if it might not be quite fully legal, you do NOT write it down, you don’t send a memo, and for Gods’ sake do not send an email."
Problem is, one of the side effects of all that technology is that you get dependent on the tech to do your remembering for you. And every time we added something, from clay tablets on up, our innate capacity to remember has gone down.
Now with AI and cloud, we've poured all of our data into one big reservoir, and all someone has to do is poison that one source with false data, and no one may remember (or be able to retrieve the unpoisoned water).
you're not wrong. I catch myself doing things like let the computer figure the angle, on a shed roof, even though I know how to do trig in my head, because "lazy"