Yes! Sneer and smarm is 100% a challenge to balance here on HN, seems like I barely got by! Frankly i'd hoped someone would look at the other comments there, e

Yes! Sneer and smarm is 100% a challenge to balance here on HN, seems like I barely got by! Frankly i'd hoped someone would look at the other comments there, e.g. "Donald": https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/the-superfluity-of-the-masses/comment/80971742 https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/the-superfluity-of-the... I don't agree with it all, but what he has going is a preference for first-order thinking: helping out the poor smart kids NOW, over lowering taxes so that entreprise will not be disincentivized (pardon the econspeak!) [You might also be entertained by the historiography from "Anirudh"] The thing NOT to learn from Sweden is how to award prizes. Certainly, the Fields Institute in Ontario (where Hinton built his career, btw) have their priorities at a more reasonable tilt vs Stockholm when it comes to building the future vs trying not to miss out on a piece of it.