I think all gambling involves a kind of magical thinking where somewhere deep down inside you believe wanting something to be strongly enough will make it be.
This is nonsense of course. But I believe we apply this same thinking in even the most prosaic of gambles; like speeding or eating things likely to disagree with us.
And I believe this mode of thinking exists because there is an evolutionary advantage in taking stupid chances.
Sometimes I wonder if the real reason corporate execs want to embrace #AI isn't because they hope to fire human workers – but rather so they can get the AI to make bad decisions for them and then blame the AI if there are consequences.
"Really? It's just another 'invisible hand' you know! We had to do it because of market forecasts and the arrangement of the chicken entrails and the direction the crows were flying!"
I'm sympathetic towards this, but IMO many personal failures are equally or more due to genetic tendencies and mis-socialization. (The latter of which is a combination of macro and micro and could also be pointed to as systemic.)
And what I don't like about that is you can draw the conclusion we are all automatons with no real will of our own. Which is also not entirely true.
So, basically, my feelings on this are complicated.
Spending a few days in the province’s rice fields as the crops are harvested one field at a time and made ready for a new season of planting afterwards. With the world seeing a drop in rice production and a rise in prices, rice may soon go the way of hard to find baby formula. Climate change is a bitch. #Photography#BlackAndWhite#Landscape#rice#leica#humancondition