The inability of society to keep up with technological innovation is something I find more and more profoundly disturbing with each passing day.
"Even if there are replacement jobs for workers unemployed due to the changes, it still takes time and money to learn the skills for a new job. But there's no guarantee that they're going to have a job in the new industry because those are the ones with the most pressure to automate in the first place.
Are they seriously supposed to just jump from job to job, racking up enormous amounts of debt paying for tuition with no assurance that they'll ever get a career out of it? It's insane and it's unsustainable."
-Paul, comment on "The Automation Paradox", The Atlantic
Occam's Bayonet. (Paul, again!)
"When the alternatives are some massive Tom Clancyesque conspiracy involving all levels of the government colluding with a foreign power and a junior officer screwing up, it's probably the junior officer screwing up."
-Paul, comment on "What Led American Ships Into Iranian Waters?", The Atlantic
Didn't really expect historiography to pop up in this series.
Rohana: "It is strange...such a joyous event, and I only know of it from what has been recorded in history."
[...]
Artanis: "And yet we know all that we need to know about these times, Rohana."
Rohana: "You must understand though...to have so little of experience to recall it. My account is capable of flaws-of imperfection."
Artanis: "Perhaps this is how our histories should be viewed after all...without certainty. Only seen through the era one lives in."
-Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void
