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It's inherently worthless because none of us are going to overclock our PCs and cool them with liquid nitrogen in daily use. It's a sport and top athletes routi
by pmontra 5y ago
It's inherently worthless because none of us are going to overclock our PCs and cool them with liquid nitrogen in daily use. It's a sport and top athletes routinely get their tools for free from manufacturers. In some cases they are custom built. An example where tools matter much more than the people using them: Formula 1' 1.6 liter engines are built, tested on a bench and only the best ones go into cars, 3 of them per car per year if nothing goes wrong. The author basically did that with CPUs.
- szundi 5y agoAccording to this logic, life is meaningless
- baq 5y agoTry not to think about that too much. We’re all going to die, our planet will be consumed by our dying star and our galaxy will end up forever alone due to expansion of space. Life is an accident of chemistry, an inevitable outcome of an infinite universe.
- alrlroipsp 5y agoWhich is objectively true. What is your point?
- ordu 5y agoMeaning is inherently subjective, so there is no point in the appeal to objectivity.