"You've always put yourself above others in our industry", someone scolded me.
So I'm the cool sardine in the can? The wildebeest who jumped higher in the herd? The taller penguin?
When we compare ourselves to each other, we are blinded to the world we swim upon.
This was a friend whose advice I've always valued who scolded me. He's not wrong.
But the weight of our society is falling hardest upon a future human society, and given the fact that as Gapminder and Hans Rolsling have measured statistically, that human society is constantly improving, the children yet to be born whose resources we are absconding will most probably be better people than we are.
Today, I'm not writing for anyone reading today. The shiny object isn't about ego, isn't about anyone alive in my lifetime. This specific blog is written for IA, and the future historians, and if I can sprinkle #futuresugar on my deeply held beliefs, it's not about putting me above anyone alive, it's that I understand AI. People are throwing their letters into the sea without a bottle, this isn't bragging, this is my bottle.
