The remarkable and depressing thing to me is that most people are not able to see it at a glance. To me it just seems like a string of obvious bluffs and non-sequiturs. Do you remember what was going on in your head when you didn’t see it at a glance?
It’s difficult for me to remember how I used to think, even a few years ago. Hell, when there’s a drastic change in the way I think about something, I have trouble remembering how I used to think mere days after the change.
Anyway, one thing I remember is that I kept giving Lanier the benefit of the doubt. I kept telling myself, “Well, maybe I don’t understand what he’s really trying to say.” So the reason I didn’t see the obvious would be… lack of self-confidence? Or maybe it’s only because my own thoughts weren’t all that clear back then. Or maybe because the way I used to parse stuff like Lanier’s piece was a lot more, um, holistic than it is now, by which I mean that I didn’t try to decompose what is written into more simple parts in order to understand it.
The remarkable and depressing thing to me is that most people are not able to see it at a glance. To me it just seems like a string of obvious bluffs and non-sequiturs. Do you remember what was going on in your head when you didn’t see it at a glance?
It’s difficult for me to remember how I used to think, even a few years ago. Hell, when there’s a drastic change in the way I think about something, I have trouble remembering how I used to think mere days after the change.
Anyway, one thing I remember is that I kept giving Lanier the benefit of the doubt. I kept telling myself, “Well, maybe I don’t understand what he’s really trying to say.” So the reason I didn’t see the obvious would be… lack of self-confidence? Or maybe it’s only because my own thoughts weren’t all that clear back then. Or maybe because the way I used to parse stuff like Lanier’s piece was a lot more, um, holistic than it is now, by which I mean that I didn’t try to decompose what is written into more simple parts in order to understand it.
It’s hard to tell.