Quotes About Efficiency

Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.

Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.

A good work efficiency project should not cost a dollar...

All wastes stem from the waste of time…

Making stuff - that's easy. Supply chain, now that is hard.

A good rest is half the work.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.

Archaic humans paid for their large brains in two ways. Firstly, they spent more time in search of food. Secondly, their muscles atrophied. Like a government diverting money from defence to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons. It's hardly a foregone conclusion that this is a good strategy for survival on the savannah. A chimpanzee can't win an argument with a Homo sapiens, but the ape can rip the man apart like a rag doll.

A single priest often does the work of a hundred soldiers – far more cheaply and effectively.

The modern capitalist economy must constantly increase production if it is to survive, like a shark that must swim or suffocate

When considering automation, therefore, it is wrong to compare the abilities of a single human driver to that of a single self-driving car, or of a single human doctor to that of a single AI doctor. Rather, we should compare the abilities of a collection of human individuals to the abilities of an integrated network.

AI might similarly help groom the best detectives, bankers, and soldiers in history.

We are now creating tame humans that produce enormous amounts of data and function as very efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but these data-cows hardly maximize the human potential.

And if you spend hours praying to non-existing guardian spirits, aren't you wasting precious time, time better spent foraging, fighting and fornicating?

In fact, AI might make centralized systems far more efficient than diffused systems, because machine learning works better the more information it can analyze. If you disregard all privacy concerns and concentrate all the information relating to a billion people in one database, you can train much better algorithms than if you respect individual privacy and have in your database only partial information on a million people.

we all know that the brain's retrieval system is amazingly efficient, except when you are trying to remember where you put your car keys.

Until a short time ago facial recognition was a favourite example of something that even babies accomplish easily but which escaped even the most powerful computers. Today facial-recognition programs are able to identify people far more efficiently and quickly than humans can.

We have bred docile cows that produce enormous amounts of milk, but are otherwise far inferior to their wild ancestors. They are less agile, less curious and less resourceful. We are now creating tame humans that produce enormous amounts of data and function as very efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but these data-cows hardly maximise the human potential. Indeed we have no idea what the full human potential is, because we know so little about the human mind. (page 50)

The crucial problem isn't creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.

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