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One of the monsters of Greek mythology, Argus, possessed thousands of eyes. That might have given him an advantage in a fight, but he still got killed, and it is said that his eyes now exist in the feathers of peacocks..

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Oh yeah! Great myth. I need to brush up on my Greek mythology - there's a lot of really cool stuff in there that tells us how the Greeks saw the world. I've put it off for too long.

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What has always made me think is how both cameras and brains actually tweak images as they go their respective "brains". The image is often upside down, color inverted, etc. And how, for instance, I wear a prism lens in my glasses for a nystagmus (not astygmatism) in my left eye. But the prism lens is for the right eye because of the way the brain works. The adjustment necessary to stop my left eye from spasming is administered through the right eye. Brains are weird.

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Yeah, that's a really good point about the left/right thing. "Confound the right eye to repair the left eye" probably wouldn't be something I'd guess at if I was trying to figure out how to fix someone's vision, but there it is!

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This data deserves to be graphed.

Even if on a logarithmic scale, I’ll bet it would show a pretty steep slope.

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I'm just kind of bummed out this didn't eventually lead to a riddle about Mississippi.

And yes, the pace of progress is ever more relentless. We'll need an extra eye each just to keep up.

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Eye don't know what you mean.

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And then considering that each insect has, like, a dozen to a hundred eyes - we get an even larger number.

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Might as well throw another zero on there - we're not catching up any time soon!

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Man, what a cool way to think about this! I feel the tide of tech rising - like when the harbor empties out before a tsunami rising. It’s fascinating and who knows where it takes us but I know all the predictions and prognosticators and Nostradamus’s are wrong

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Some predictions will be less wrong than others. For us, I think it's all about leaving possibilities open and creating space for different potential outcomes.

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Beware the rise of the luddites

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I guess. It's gonna be tough for them to have much impact with sticks and stones up against nanotech and AI, but they'll cause some disruptions for sure.

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The mob is fickle - trying to dig up some wise shit from gladiator but who knows if thats right - but ultimately, we have to bring everyone along.

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Mobs are definitely fickle, and new things can emerge from the crowd. It's not always "wisdom" that emerges, but sometimes a distinct identity with its own desires that have little to do with the majority.

I guess that is one of the things I've been trying to wrap my head around lately. I should pick simpler problems.

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Dude, that’s an impossible problem! Like figuring out how overalls are now peak fashion or why hawk tuah is even a thing

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