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Totally makes sense to me. Capitalism is intrinsically unattractive to those who do not wish to sweep broader perspectives on emotion-management under the rug..
by vinnyvichy 3y ago
Totally makes sense to me. Capitalism is intrinsically unattractive to those who do not wish to sweep broader perspectives on emotion-management under the rug.. (how to extract utility from lossy information channels, basically). With that framing, extreme progressivism horseshoes into haute couture.. PGs cringe-blogging just pales -- an utilitarian reading of Wodehouse requires taking the Edwardian aristocracy seriously as intellectualls,just like, unintentionally/ironically, PG invites the best of us to skewer YCs practical ideology with postvonneumann paradigms
- 082349872349872 3y agoHarvard architecture being an excellent example of a postvonneuman paradigm (it has an analytic advantage in that when one pops the stack to return to a previous control state, what one finds there has conserved what was there when one originally pushed, rather than potentially being new control state to match the new data state)
- vinnyvichy 3y agoAhaha. JvN is the demiurge regnant (not Einstein, btw) so a single implementation of the quantum Harvard architecture could in principle be sufficient to deluge away the globalist-techno-nuclear-feudalism But maybe postvonneumann is already here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029014
- 082349872349872 3y ago> This is not always due to severe pathologies I don't know about severe, but it seems like something about that approach ought to count as pathological... Given the "nuclear" term of globalist-techno-nuclear-feudalism I'm not rooting for any deluges, more an erosion via steady precipitation, or perhaps just a rising tide? (compare https://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Tel/Recoltes-et-Semailles-I-II https://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Tel/Recoltes-et... as explained by https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/teaching/math22b2019/handouts/lecture15.pdf https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/teaching/math22b2019/... )
- vinnyvichy 3y agoAh right, Grothendieck, the less violent (albeit less effective) unabomber. He could have been a postJvN contender but alas, too laid back on implementations XD Kolmogorov option OTOH (as summarized by his life) could be the optimal interpolate https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=3376 https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=3376
- 082349872349872 3y agoAKA the Benjamin option? When asked whether [Old Benjamin, the donkey] was not happier now that Jones was gone, he would say only "Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey," and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.
- 082349872349872 3y agoThinking about this a little more: As per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084498 , Kolmogorov operated in an environment where he had to temper courage and only prudently seek justice. — Children, you are the owners of the camp. You! What is required of you, my friends? — (ALL IN CHORUS) DISCIPLINE! How about Galkin option? (as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40012335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40012335 ) It doesn't solve the global problem, but it certainly widens one's local domain.
- vinnyvichy 2y agoWorld of tomorrow/travel (well, "(quantum) tunneling") documents to the future. JJ's framework is after all based on classic Indo-Judeo-Christo-European one of nerds vs jocks/2 estates against the 3rd. Kolmogorov a bit more interesting: when given the choice of projected socio-disciplinary impact, or a concrete chance to indulge in imagination, that is, to live, not, to "live" (in the sense expounded in the Talmud) , he lived. Can't fit this into JJ's dichotomy. Quantum nonlocality, something JvN had not grown up breathing, but K,AN had. Saw to it later, the very postwar counter-counter-revolution.