This is why we need humanitiea in tech, not that these leaders are smart enough to understand why.

The world doesn’t work this way.

These people can’t handle a messy, complicated world & want to reduce it to order & neat abstractions. They want control when it’s not possible.

despite countless offers, despite pleas, despite feedback and criticism done every which way from politely to angrily, despite this happening for years and years and *decades* people like Balaji and Jack continue to ignore the humanities and behave as if they are smarter & better

please get some fucking therapy & learn to let go

you want to control the world, make it neat and tidy. you can't, bc *nobody* can. software doesn't work like that, & if you try to make the world work like software, *especially how s/w works now*, *it'll be horrible for humans*

I made a dumb joke ages ago about how some people thought gender was a binary m/f and actually maybe it's more of a float?! Or that Zuckerberg talked about FB query language.

PEOPLE. DON'T. FIT. IN. SQL.

But it's not just SQL, THEY WON'T FIT IN YOUR TRENDY NEW THING EITHER.

"but we can store nuance in a double-precision float"

A WORLD WITH LIVING HUMANS IN IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY

“Could”
“Should”
“Infinite money”

Yes, the problem right now is epistemically establishing eg a person’s state of mind to definitely say whether they’re “lying” with intent to deceive, totally doable.