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>> fuck ups. ...and world changing success. I'm cheering this on from the sidelines, but I'm not advocating. Keep your metal and silicon out of my body, thank

>> fuck ups. ...and world changing success. I'm cheering this on from the sidelines, but I'm not advocating. Keep your metal and silicon out of my body, thanks.

tablespoon 4y ago
>> It's worth noting that being overambitious is often the root cause of fuck ups. > ...and world changing success. But mostly fuck ups.
- fastball 4y ago
  But overambitious is only obvious in retrospect. If you're successful, it was exactly the right amount of ambition.
  - tablespoon 4y ago
    > But overambitious is only obvious in retrospect. I disagree. If you're trying to do, say, implement five revolutionary things no one's ever done all at once, so you can tell people you're going to go from zero to sci-fi in a couple years, there's an extremely high likelihood you're being overambitious. That's something that's obvious from the start.
    - tarboreus 4y ago
      Go tell that to Thomas Edison, I guess. Or Nikola Tesla.
      - tablespoon 4y ago
        > Go tell that to Thomas Edison, I guess. Or Nikola Tesla. The vast majority of people, including engineers and business leaders, are not Edisons or Telsas. Sometimes people get lucky or they have unusually well-resourced and competent teams to tackle an unusual amount of stuff at once. That's why I qualified my statement with "there's an extremely high likelihood..." Given Neuralink is facing "a federal probe and employee backlash" over shoddy practices, I highly doubt they have the unusually well-resourced and competent teams to not be overambitious.
      - rovolo 4y ago
        What's an example of Edison or Tesla doing multiple "revolutionary things no one's ever done all at once"? I'm genuinely interested, but details matter a lot. For example, the Edison company's contribution to electric light was mainly extending the life and reducing the amperage of light bulbs. Other people had already demonstrated the potential of electric light.

>> fuck ups. ...and world changing success. I'm cheering this on from the sidelines, but I'm not advocating. Keep your metal and silicon out of my body, thanks.

tablespoon 4y ago

>> It's worth noting that being overambitious is often the root cause of fuck ups. > ...and world changing success. But mostly fuck ups.

fastball 4y ago
But overambitious is only obvious in retrospect. If you're successful, it was exactly the right amount of ambition.
- tablespoon 4y ago
  > But overambitious is only obvious in retrospect. I disagree. If you're trying to do, say, implement five revolutionary things no one's ever done all at once, so you can tell people you're going to go from zero to sci-fi in a couple years, there's an extremely high likelihood you're being overambitious. That's something that's obvious from the start.
  - tarboreus 4y ago
    Go tell that to Thomas Edison, I guess. Or Nikola Tesla.
    - tablespoon 4y ago
      > Go tell that to Thomas Edison, I guess. Or Nikola Tesla. The vast majority of people, including engineers and business leaders, are not Edisons or Telsas. Sometimes people get lucky or they have unusually well-resourced and competent teams to tackle an unusual amount of stuff at once. That's why I qualified my statement with "there's an extremely high likelihood..." Given Neuralink is facing "a federal probe and employee backlash" over shoddy practices, I highly doubt they have the unusually well-resourced and competent teams to not be overambitious.
    - rovolo 4y ago
      What's an example of Edison or Tesla doing multiple "revolutionary things no one's ever done all at once"? I'm genuinely interested, but details matter a lot. For example, the Edison company's contribution to electric light was mainly extending the life and reducing the amperage of light bulbs. Other people had already demonstrated the potential of electric light.