>This is so bad it makes my brain hurt If it's that bad I wonder what its doing sitting on the very top of HN right now. I think what he says cuts through the

>This is so bad it makes my brain hurt If it's that bad I wonder what its doing sitting on the very top of HN right now. I think what he says cuts through the bullcrap and feels viscerally true. Imagine if, instead of him making these points, it was Obama or RMS or whoever you ideal is, making these exact points. You'd react very differently. That said, I'm not really sure what the alternative is. > our society has managed to put in our pockets supercomputers connected wirelessly to the world's knowledge As a grad student, I remember when the university got access to a supercomputer. Our professors were quite ecstatic & said we could now solve massive problems....as if it was the lack of supercomputers that was holding them back. That was 15 years ago & the university is in the same place in the rankings. All that happened was a bunch of students wrote some parallel processing code & got a thesis & graduated & moved on. Things are no different today. If you datamine the vast majority of queries run by the general public on wolframalpha, they wouldn't be far off from "2+3 = ?" It isn't like the common man is jumping up and down because he can finally crack Goldbach's conjecture. He could care less.