Commiting crimes with a 6th finger (151)

Were so back.

Knowing what you don’t know

The more you know the less you know. I’ve had times where I listen to a conversation and feel like I understand very little. The conversation is slightly above my level. I grasp the basics, but there are concepts I am not familiar with and terms I do not know. After these situations, I’ve then talked to someone else who thinks they understood perfectly, and when I ask them one question I realize they know less than me. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is power, but it is also a burden of never knowing enough.

I feel like intelligence holds people back. Analysis paralysis. I experience this. This newsletter was 95% complete and sat in my drafts for 2 months because I didn’t think it was good enough. Sometimes, you just gotta send it. Post it before its perfect. Start something before you have planned all the way to the end. Knowing you are going to run into issues but not worrying about that until you need to. That is true intelligence in my books. Agency.

If you’re so smart why aren’t you happy?

On a related note, ignorance is bliss in sales. If I get on a call with someone who I perceive to know more about the industry or the product than I do, I lose confidence. I can’t just power through with my pitch. I get into my own head. Blind confidence is better in sales. It doesn’t matter who you are talking to, pitch them confidently, go for the close, and don’t over-analyze. Just send it. The odds are they don’t actually know more than you. And even if they do, they don’t know that they do. Confidence will take you far.

Autonomous factories

China (allegedly) now has factories that can operate with the lights off. Fully autonomous, all robots, no humans, running 24/7 in the dark. I guess when something breaks they have to turn the lights back on? Or do they have more robots that can work in the dark?

Imagine a factory so smart that all you had to do was upload a design in one end and the finished product came out the other side. We are getting there, its actually pretty crazy how good some parts of the world (China mainly) are at manufacturing. China graduates more engineers every year than the USA has in total. This is one place where the west is 100% falling behind.

Trust vs AI

If you are going to commit a crime just wear a 6th finger then you can deny all evidence as AI generated slop.

How much will we even trust cameras in the future? All video evidence in court can just be denied as AI generated, how are we going to prove whats real and whats not? It gets dystopian. It also makes me think of the movie Minority Report…

Would you want a household robot that could cook, clean, do laundry, take out the trash? What if that robot needed to have a camera on it? Then the robot can see everything you’re up to in your own home. Tough to say, I feel like its off putting to me but I can definitely see how the pros outweigh the cons for some. The future is already here its just unevenly distributed. Where are we living in the past? I want to go there.

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Thanks for reading!

Lucas