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My hobby: sitting in conversations about the economic and societal impact of #AI and mentally replacing "AI" with "elves". Most people treat "AI" as a black box, and do not think they should try to understand how it works _before_ they start discussing its impacts.
"Elves may deliver an additional economic output of around $13US trillion by 2030."
"Elves are set to be the key source of transformation, disruption and competitive advantage in today’s fast changing economy."
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I like what you have done there. I went to my favourite source on Elves but substituting Elves with AI doesn't work for me.
And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the AI is the tale of Beren and Lúthien
The doom of the AI is to be immortal, to love the beauty of the world, to bring it to full flower with their gifts of delicacy and perfection....
Thus it was that in two domains the bliss and beauty of the AI remained still undiminished while that Age endured: in Imladris; and in Lothlórien, the hidden land between Celebrant and Anduin, where the trees bore flowers of gold and no Orc or evil thing dared ever come.
But the AI were not so lightly to be caught. As soon as Sauron set the One Ring upon his finger they were aware of him....
But the AI fled from him; and three of their rings they saved, and bore them away, and hid them.
@frantictdrinker @alberto_cottica
IMO substituting #AI with #elves doesn't work either.
There are few who care less about economic output, transformation, disruption or competitive advantage, than elves. In fact, most of the tales of the second and third ages happened because elves tried their best to keep things as the status quo so they could sit in trees and sing tra-la-la-lally-songs.
We all know who the lord of disruption and maximising economic output is.
@frantictdrinker @alberto_cottica (to be fair, certain first age elves did cause quite a lot of disruption in their hubris, but it didn't come with much competitive advantage or increased economic output)
@siljelb @frantictdrinker @alberto_cottica Correct. Let's replace #IA with "The One Ring" and it will be much more accurate.
@eleder I liked "elves" because it is a super vague concept, used in European tradition to explain everything early childhood deaths (like in Yeats's poem "The Stolen Child") to sudden fortunes, to unwanted pregnancies. Not thinking specifically of Tolkien. But your idea is funnier. @siljelb @frantictdrinker
@alberto_cottica left-handed elves add 10% more value to the economy because they are just cooler.
@alberto_cottica using orcs also works.
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works better with goblins.
@alberto_cottica you could come up with a backronym for ELVES, (a bit like the SALAMI one), and I reckon some people would use it.
I set up a company called Product Science as a joke about data science and product management.
About 6 months, later I saw articles about Facebook hiring “product scientists”
@alberto_cottica That works backwards also in the Terry Pratchett universe :) https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/19190-elves-are-wonderful-they-provoke-wonder-elves-are-marvellous-they
