Agreed. However I would add one huge caveat. The power of vast, organic, ecological systems like markets and large open source communities, is that we can wor

Agreed. However I would add one huge caveat. The power of vast, organic, ecological systems like markets and large open source communities, is that we can work on all problems simultaneously. This is immensely powerful and it also allows network effects of problem solving, such as those side effects mentioned in the article. If nobody was working on the things that required big parallel clusters, then the advancements in GPU technologies would matter not a bit to solving these problems. I don't think we need to worry about how important the problems we are trying to solve are. I think the best approach is to work on solving the problems that inspire us. I think, as the Spartan prince once said (according to Plutarch), "People raise positions, not the other way around."