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This. Vitalik has demonstrated an exhaustively thoughtful approach to building technology, is exceptionally humble, and seems to deeply contemplate the fifth-o
by sophrocyne 4y ago
This.
Vitalik has demonstrated an exhaustively thoughtful approach to building technology, is exceptionally humble, and seems to deeply contemplate the fifth-order implications of decisions being made.
It seems absurd to me that people think someone like this has not sufficiently thought through the societal value of their life's work.
- pessimizer 4y ago> It seems absurd to me that people think someone like this has not sufficiently thought through the societal value of their life's work. Is this a friend of yours? Because you have more confidence in him than I have with people I know personally. Sounds parasocial.
- sophrocyne 4y agopessimizer writes: > Is this a friend of yours? Because you have more confidence in him than I have with people I know personally. Sounds parasocial. If only! Given you've tied your identity to pessimism, which I assume implied you see it as a virtue, I think you might be somewhat more inclined to misanthropy than me. And that's ok. :)
- robocat 4y ago> pessimizer I’m guessing there’s an intentional link with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessary (from Latin Pessarium) as well as the computing term pessimal (same root as pessimism, from French pessimisme, from Latin pessimus “worst”) and optimizer.
- zpthree 4y agoHere is a blog post where he claims the halting problem is not undecidable: https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/04/01/cantor.html https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/04/01/cantor.html "patent pending on this research" He has a dangerous combination of self-delusion + intelligence