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At the risk of drawing the ire of folks here and conducting some informed generalization ... but this kind of thing is exactly why regular people cannot stand,

At the risk of drawing the ire of folks here and conducting some informed generalization ... but this kind of thing is exactly why regular people cannot stand, even hate people like that. It's the kind of frivolity and decadent nature of things that when future generations (if there are any) look back and say "of course the outcome of that would be {future calamity}". It's interesting in some ways, but man, it just feels like that kind of thing that is symbolic of the pull away from norm that causes breaks. Just some thoughts, be they wrong or not.

efrank2 4y ago
I think 'regular people' would find this neat, more so than the niche content that is usually posted to hacker news. This is fun. Are you saying that any effort not expended on solving [insert existential risk] is wasted?
alanbernstein 4y ago
People like that... artists? What are you responding to?
the_biot 4y ago
Not regular people, just people that are super conservative and closed to all things new. There are indeed plenty of those, but it's not what most people are like.
- frankfrankfrank 4y ago
  “not what most people are like” … until the bill comes due. It’s an extremely immature, underdeveloped, and extremely dangerous juvenile mentality. Profligate behavior with other people’s money is always popular and generally falls under a class of crimes called theft. There is not other outcome to any of this but catastrophe one way or another. You can live high in the hog for some time, living off what others have created and built up over years and generations, e.g., grandmas savings, but that will invariably run out one way or another. Maybe you will be able to roll the consequences of that mentality on others or your children, but the bill will come due one day, and that day could be coming soon or not, but it is coming with ever greater certainty that there has been no correction in a long while.

efrank2 4y ago

I think 'regular people' would find this neat, more so than the niche content that is usually posted to hacker news. This is fun. Are you saying that any effort not expended on solving [insert existential risk] is wasted?

alanbernstein 4y ago

People like that... artists? What are you responding to?

the_biot 4y ago

Not regular people, just people that are super conservative and closed to all things new. There are indeed plenty of those, but it's not what most people are like.

frankfrankfrank 4y ago
“not what most people are like” … until the bill comes due. It’s an extremely immature, underdeveloped, and extremely dangerous juvenile mentality. Profligate behavior with other people’s money is always popular and generally falls under a class of crimes called theft. There is not other outcome to any of this but catastrophe one way or another. You can live high in the hog for some time, living off what others have created and built up over years and generations, e.g., grandmas savings, but that will invariably run out one way or another. Maybe you will be able to roll the consequences of that mentality on others or your children, but the bill will come due one day, and that day could be coming soon or not, but it is coming with ever greater certainty that there has been no correction in a long while.