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It’s a nice train of thought, but it’s not a great essay. Good enough for a bar conversation but I don’t think it is saying much as currently written. What is
by erikpukinskis 8y ago
It’s a nice train of thought, but it’s not a great essay. Good enough for a bar conversation but I don’t think it is saying much as currently written.
What is metazoan computing?
Given that our discrete computers encode many analog models, what exactly is he suggesting will be so now that it constitutes a new era?
Reads a little like the writings of someone who so wants to say something bigger than everyone else that they end up not saying anything to anyone.
Analog models are neat though, and pondering “could we do this analog” a good question to have in the design quiver.
- bitwize 8y ago> It’s a nice train of thought, but it’s not a great essay. Good enough for a bar conversation but I don’t think it is saying much as currently written. Oh, you must be new to Edge.org, which for as long as I've heard of it has been home to some of the most egregiously pretentious intellectual wankery about computers and technology and shit -- the kind of stuff that The Guy I Almost Was makes fun of. When some of your most level-headed essays come from Eric S. Raymond, it's time to acknowledge that you haven't just misplaced the plot.
- laughingman2 8y ago> Reads a little like the writings of someone who so wants to say something bigger than everyone else that they end up not saying anything to anyone. Exactly, similar to some of the (not all though) "insights" you have under the influence of psychedelics.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoI mean, some insights are crap, regardless of what chemicals you are on. But psychedelics have been clinically shown to help people have genuine insights.