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128 points ArmageddonIt | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.202s | source
1. jbs789 ◴[] No.44506856[source]
Stepping back from the specifics these are stories of human nature.

We tag “complacency” as bad, but I think it’s just a byproduct of our reliance on heuristics and patterns which is evolutionarily useful overall.

On the other hand we worry (sometimes excessively) about how the future might unfold and really much of that is unknown.

Much more practical (and rewarding) to keep improving oneself or organisation to meet the needs of the world today withe an eye on how the world is evolving, rather than try to be some oracle or predict too far out (in which case you need to both get the prediction and the execution right!).

As an aside, it seems a recent fashion to love these big bets these days (AI, remember Metaverse), and to make big high conviction statements about the future, but that’s more to do with their individual specific circumstances and motivations.