Kevin Kelly

see it by ourselves we can't get there by ourselves we need this help so that is again the paradox the paradox is the only way you can become somebody unique and different from everybody else is by relying on everybody else to help you do it and so this is not a matter of okay you're just going to ignore everybody that anything says and you're on your own you're not going to get there why do you suggest that people prototype their life versus drawing up grand plans

There's a bunch of reasons, but the primary one is that plans are ideal.

And to be real, plans are ideal and perfect.

And to be real, it means you're imperfect.

And you want to take an ideal, a perfect thing and make it as real as fast as possible.

And that making it real means that you want to do a prototype.

You want to make it real.

And that will expose all the imperfections.

But that's good.

because reality is going to be imperfect.

And so you want to take it from the perfect abstract realm and start to making it real as quickly as you can.

And that will inform and improve it because you can't improve abstract perfection.

You can't improve abstract things very well.

You can only kind of improve things that are real.

And so that's the one of the reasons, one of the many reasons to prototype.

And the second one is that very complicated things, whether artificial things like a robot or an AI or technology,

and ourselves and our lives, the shortest way to arrive at seeing what they are that's reliable is actually to run it.

There's like a computational compression that very, very complicated things can only be seen and only be understood by having them run all the way out.

You can't assimilate them.

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