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I’ve done a couple of his surveys and mentioned that I think those questions are a waste of time. Donald Knuth handled it well. Do we live in a simulation? H
by melling 6y ago
I’ve done a couple of his surveys and mentioned that I think those questions are a waste of time.
Donald Knuth handled it well.
Do we live in a simulation?
Hanging out debating unanswerable questions all the time has zero value.
- cma 6y agoNot to be a romantic, but what do you think of neuralink (asked to someone in unrelated field to fulfill weird Musk quota the podcast seems to have)?
- typon 6y agoI don't understand the obsession with Elon Musk some seemingly smart individuals seem to have. Seems like such a waste of time.
- cma 6y agoIt could be in this case a kind of arranged deal. Lex made a controversial paper about Tesla driver monitoring not being needed (based on users selected from an unbiased pool of... Tesla online fan clubs), flattering to Tesla's position, and promoted it before getting peer review. A few weeks later he had Musk on the podcast and got onto the Joe Rogan podcast and brought into a kind of mutual-shilling podcast circle. https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27359/mit-study-showing-high-functional-vigilance-among-autopilot-users-comes-with-massive-caveats https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27359/mit-study-showing-high-f...
- Paradigma11 6y agoStarship, it's all about starship. If he succeeds with it humanity as a species can expanse beyond this gravity well in a few decades. Not sure what this fixation on mars is about, tough.
- jcims 6y agoI've done the same and tell him I enjoy them. I think it's informative how the people he interviews frame the question (or not) and approach the answer. They are at a predictable spot in the podcast (the end), so it's pretty easy to just stop listening when he brings them up.