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There is a lot of hand waving on both sides - some flailing about predicting the end of the world while the rest wave them off. What I am looking for is actual

There is a lot of hand waving on both sides - some flailing about predicting the end of the world while the rest wave them off. What I am looking for is actual thought put into the subject other than "meh."

PaulHoule 5mo ago
99% of the people who want to talk about this on HN, LinkedIn, elsewhere, don't know enough to have an opinion. I was trying to build that kind of system 10 years ago when the technology just wasn't ready and frankly I'm pretty offended by all the people who think if they can't get ChatGPT to write them 10 blog posts about what it all means in the next 30 seconds or they can enjoy being poor forever. So to follow the midwit meme, I think "meh" is both the dimwit and genius answer, it is the midwit who is struggling and feels there just isn't enough distraction in the world about it and won't be comfortable unless they can create more.
- oliculipolicula 5mo ago
  m?-meh-tic PR? "I'm glad the chicken brain is running around with its body cut-off" To expand on the tease: The pundits' (the chicken head: midwit and certified geniuses) panic could be diagnosed as counter-signalling. Those who have spent time in the trenches (the body; not your hypothetical automated bloggers doing market research with HN, not Karpathy who has ?illions in manager-cred) might be having the real attacks. Not constantly--- before bedtime. And it is lower than 1%. Presumably you refer to those eudaimon-possessed scientist-engineers who are trying to Routinely do things that have never been done before Like this one https://youtu.be/6F8zK57Wa0A https://youtu.be/6F8zK57Wa0A Sorry-- my only excuse would be this half-baked thought some distractions are more focussing than others, some long term projects are more distracting than half-baked ideas. Even in your one-liner I quoted above "things" are carrying the day just by virtue of having no qualifier attached to it besides "new" Extending Koerner, a gram is worth more than a damn, but a damn can be worth more than a kilogram-- if you spread out the damn What if Ron and you, _without_ refriending, worked out how easy it would be _to_ teach the rest of the 1% irascible (bc starving) artist-scientist-engineers how to overcome their ideological or genetic differences? Or ungrabbed uh non-opportunities that each has independently found and doubled down on fucking around with. You know, "fuck around and never finding out" If you need 3 projects.. you don't need 3 projects. You might be Newton, but you're not a VC.
  - PaulHoule 5mo ago
    Is that Ron Maimon or Ron Hubbard or both?
    - oliculipolicula 5mo ago
      If you have a good Hubbard simulacrum.. https://archive.ph/2023.03.11-171653/https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2022/06/06/poking-holes-in-bells-inequality-e-t-jaynes-possibly-clearing-up-some-mysteries/#:~:text=model.%20I%20think-,Ron%20Maimon,-made%20this%20point https://archive.ph/2023.03.11-171653/https://scottlocklin.wo... was what I chanced on yesterday And there was some RNA stuff I overheard M talking about ages ago which I have somehow stashed in the 'mechanosynthesis' corner

PaulHoule 5mo ago

99% of the people who want to talk about this on HN, LinkedIn, elsewhere, don't know enough to have an opinion. I was trying to build that kind of system 10 years ago when the technology just wasn't ready and frankly I'm pretty offended by all the people who think if they can't get ChatGPT to write them 10 blog posts about what it all means in the next 30 seconds or they can enjoy being poor forever. So to follow the midwit meme, I think "meh" is both the dimwit and genius answer, it is the midwit who is struggling and feels there just isn't enough distraction in the world about it and won't be comfortable unless they can create more.

oliculipolicula 5mo ago
m?-meh-tic PR? "I'm glad the chicken brain is running around with its body cut-off" To expand on the tease: The pundits' (the chicken head: midwit and certified geniuses) panic could be diagnosed as counter-signalling. Those who have spent time in the trenches (the body; not your hypothetical automated bloggers doing market research with HN, not Karpathy who has ?illions in manager-cred) might be having the real attacks. Not constantly--- before bedtime. And it is lower than 1%. Presumably you refer to those eudaimon-possessed scientist-engineers who are trying to Routinely do things that have never been done before Like this one https://youtu.be/6F8zK57Wa0A https://youtu.be/6F8zK57Wa0A Sorry-- my only excuse would be this half-baked thought some distractions are more focussing than others, some long term projects are more distracting than half-baked ideas. Even in your one-liner I quoted above "things" are carrying the day just by virtue of having no qualifier attached to it besides "new" Extending Koerner, a gram is worth more than a damn, but a damn can be worth more than a kilogram-- if you spread out the damn What if Ron and you, _without_ refriending, worked out how easy it would be _to_ teach the rest of the 1% irascible (bc starving) artist-scientist-engineers how to overcome their ideological or genetic differences? Or ungrabbed uh non-opportunities that each has independently found and doubled down on fucking around with. You know, "fuck around and never finding out" If you need 3 projects.. you don't need 3 projects. You might be Newton, but you're not a VC.
- PaulHoule 5mo ago
  Is that Ron Maimon or Ron Hubbard or both?
  - oliculipolicula 5mo ago
    If you have a good Hubbard simulacrum.. https://archive.ph/2023.03.11-171653/https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2022/06/06/poking-holes-in-bells-inequality-e-t-jaynes-possibly-clearing-up-some-mysteries/#:~:text=model.%20I%20think-,Ron%20Maimon,-made%20this%20point https://archive.ph/2023.03.11-171653/https://scottlocklin.wo... was what I chanced on yesterday And there was some RNA stuff I overheard M talking about ages ago which I have somehow stashed in the 'mechanosynthesis' corner