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Surely the solution to nonsense is not more nonsense with the sign bit flipped?
by pg 16y ago
Surely the solution to nonsense is not more nonsense with the sign bit flipped?
- khafra 16y agoI think Eliezer says it best: http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelligence/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelli... What counts is calibrated predictive power.
- ojbyrne 16y agoSeems to me that the industry is basically bimodal. Either you get a hugely successful outcome, or you end up owning Bebo (I realize that YC is probably a large counterexample). So why shouldn't commentary match that bimodalism, to coin a word.
- chipsy 16y agoOne might call it "digital emotion."
- underdown 16y agowhen did skepticism become nonsense?
- j_baker 16y agoI agree that there's a lot of paranoia and FUD going around out there about this. But I don't think this is fair. Some people have valid concerns about a tech bubble emerging. For instance Fred Wilson doesn't strike me as someone who is running around screaming about the sky falling.