Daily Archives: March 21, 2011

The Social Network

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Speaking to an audience at Stanford University, Zuckerberg stated that the film portrayed his motivations for creating Facebook inaccurately; instead of an effort to “get girls”, he says he created the site because he enjoys “building things”. 

— Wikipedia on The Social Network

One of the most interesting things to me was his analysis of what The Social Network got wrong. People in Hollywood couldn’t imagine that someone would build something because they were interested in building things, so they had to create another, perhaps more “movie-compatible,” motivation for him.

— Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn’t Get About Silicon Valley

— Jessica Livingston

2011.03.21 Monday ACHK

Point of view

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“Point of view” is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum.

— Paul Saffo

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2011.03.21 Monday ACHK

I am a Strange Loop, 2.1

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自我委員會 2.1

… the “I” as a hallucination hallucinated by a hallucination.

— p. 293, I am a Strange Loop, by Douglas R. Hofstadter

「自我」是一個幻覺。而這個幻覺本身，是由一個幻覺製造出來的。

第一次看這句句子時，我覺得作者是在胡言亂語。現在我才明白作者「胡言亂語」的背後，究竟想帶出什麼意思。

剛才講過，一個人的「自我」，其實是「多重人格」。或者說，「自我」是一個由很多個委員組成的委員會。但是，一般的情況下，我會覺得我是一個單一的人格。那麼，「我是一個單一的人格」這個（錯誤）概念，是誰跟我說的呢？就是由我的「自我委員會」的各個委員跟我說的。即是說，那個「自我委員會」一直在誤導我。

但是，那個被誤導的「我」又是誰呢？

我就是那個委員會。換言之，「自我委員會」一直在誤導「自我委員會」。委員會中的各個人格，一直以為大家是同一個人格。而各個人格，又不斷向其他人格重複強調，大家是同一個人格。

— Me@2011.03.20

2011.03.20 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK