Heuretics come out of people’s brains (TECHNOLOGY IS PEOPLE)

# Heuretics come out of people’s brains (TECHNOLOGY IS PEOPLE) TECHNOLOGY IS PEOPLE rests on three arguments: 1. [[Heuretics cannot exist separate from humans]] 2. [[New ideas need to come out of a single mind]] 3. [[Brains are wombs for heuretics]] #### Why is this not naval-gazing? * [[Many approaches to augmented knowledge generation ignore humans]] - this is why they are built on shaky assumptions. * Any model of technological development that ignores humans is limited * Incentives matter * [[Researchers are more important than the research]] * Realizing that [[Most human knowledge is not encoded]] is important * [[You need a human to resolve conflicting information]] * If you ignore that technology is people, you give up a lot of control authority over how technology evolves. ([[What does technological genetic engineering look like?]], [[What does technological husbandry look like?]]) ### Related * [[Dupont was unable to replicate viscose rayon]] even though they acquired the IP * [[alexanderYouWantRun2022]] points to a common pattern where people want to put money into a thing and assume some manager type will show up  [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Heuretics+come+out+of+people’s+brains+(TECHNOLOGY+IS+PEOPLE) ) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Heuretics+come+out+of+people’s+brains+(TECHNOLOGY+IS+PEOPLE) )