The question we should continually insist on asking ourselves, both as makers of tools and users of them, is how they can help us improve the flow of love. Do they connect us with each other, and reinforce our instincts to treat each other as moral ends? Do they help us convey our love out into the world through information and interfaces, or help us know when we are being offered any?

I get what he’s saying, and there’s some nice prose here, but to me it seems like a whole lot of jibber-jabber. AI is making even the smartest people in my blogroll a bit loopy.

You probably know one hundred people. Picture two of them staring at a broken screen. The 98% statistic is a lazy shortcut. Truly robust engineering isn’t about what works for most; it’s about gracefully handling the edge cases. If a fancy new feature can’t degrade gracefully, then 98% isn’t “widely supported”. It failed to meet the basic minimum for 2% of the people out there.

via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816959

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