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> They mean permanently making earth a significantly less pleasant place to live for a significant portion of its population. In the context of this article s
by ErrantX 16y ago
> They mean permanently making earth a significantly less pleasant place to live for a significant portion of its population.
In the context of this article such people would be termed either "wannabes" or "lacking in vision".
- stcredzero 16y agoReally? We're talking about those who can see a way to achieve basically the same thing, but whose methods are dozens of orders of magnitude more efficient. That strikes me as clever. To me, the ones who propose such a ridiculous goal are those "lacking in vision."
- sliverstorm 16y agoThe number of times 'vision' has been correlated with 'efficiency' or frankly even 'cleverness' is very small. Vision isn't about building a better cow, but how you apply that cow.
- stcredzero 16y agoRISC? Super-Scalar? Out of Order execution? JIT? Sorry, but vision often does result in orders of magnitude improvement.
- Avshalom 16y agoYou're offering up RISC as an example of vision in a discussion of destroying planets? Moving Jupiter via fusion candle is vision, RISC is optimization.
- stcredzero 16y agoThe fusion candle idea is neat. It's entertaining because it resembles the thinking behind real engineering. Most of the items from the article are like, "Gee whiz, let's spend about 2 seconds applying knowledge from a 2 second skim of a bunch of Wikipedia entries. Golly, look at the big numbers!"