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A billion-year plan(kurzweilai.net)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Ford Nucleon - a nuclear-powered concept car from 1958(en.wikipedia.org)
51 points by gnosis 14y ago|47 comments
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Robotic Networks Among the Stars(centauri-dreams.org)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Starships: The Problem of Arrival(centauri-dreams.org)
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by gnosis 14y ago
They were listed in the same paragraph because they were examples of people who are widely considered to be "geniuses", but who either held menial jobs at one point in their life, or who weren't "successful" (in the common sense of the term
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by gnosis 14y ago
You might be interested in Colin Wilson's book "The Outsider"[1], which was written more than 30 years before the essay you quote. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(Colin_Wilson)
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by gnosis 14y ago
Considering your sample size of one, calling me a troll for using a sample size of three is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Also, I never claimed that was your main argument. I just said that that's the part of your post I was
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by gnosis 14y ago
My point was the OP appeared to be judging by the jobs an individual held at one point in time. Judged by the same criteria, Einstein, Wittgenstein, and Kafka would have fared no better. The fact that Einstein and Wittgenstein held more pr
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by gnosis 14y ago
"No, I was judging him by his accomplishments" What made you think your LSAT instructor's accomplishments were limited to his job titles? What do you know about this man apart from those two facts? Kafka and Van Gogh were completely unkno
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by gnosis 14y ago
The OP was judging a person by his job, and implying that the person in question couldn't be a genius because he worked at a menial job. I simply provided some counterexamples. Furthermore, white collar or not, I doubt that many would conte
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by gnosis 14y ago
"And what did the genius do when not teaching LSAT prep courses? Why, he worked at Target." Kafka was a clerk at an insurance company. Einstein was an assistant patent examiner. Wittgenstein was a gardener at a monastery and then a prim
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by gnosis 14y ago
Another case in point: the Polgar sisters[1][2][3], raised by their father[4] to prove the point that "geniuses are made, not born". [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Polgar [3] -
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Coder's Asceticism(nklein.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Musicalgorithms(musicalgorithms.ewu.edu)
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DEEP THOUGHTs about 42(stephen-king.de)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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The #! magic(in-ulm.de)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
These are just as subject to abuse.
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Unusual, Neglected and/or Lost Literature(stommel.tamu.edu)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
This is pretty scary. The potential for abuse and fraud in a computerized referendum like this is tremendous. Even if you trust Facebook and Twitter (which you shouldn't), they are open to being hacked and sockpuppeted. Of course none of th
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by gnosis 14y ago
Do you really expect your typical underpaid, undereducated, and overworked TSA employee to properly calibrate, maintain, or use a backscatter machines? Even in hospitals, which have much stricter standards of safety and training have had ac
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by gnosis 14y ago
You seem to be suffering from some sort of tunnel vision that lets you see only two options here: the miserable status quo or everyone getting fired. I am not advocating firing anyone. If someone enjoys sorting cork, or if they are just t
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a k
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by gnosis 14y ago
Not very long ago, it used to be inconceivable in America that blacks and whites would one day sit together at the same restaurant, drink from the same water fountain, use the same bathrooms, compete for the same jobs, go to the same school
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by gnosis 14y ago
And the counter argument seems to be, "Because someone could conceivably like that job, everyone doing that job must like it." Or maybe the counter argument is, "Well, they look happy in the pictures." Or is it, "They'd be even less ha
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by gnosis 14y ago
I freely admit I'm making a value judgment here. But I am not imposing my values on anyone. I'm just noting that I find the thought of anyone spending their whole life sorting or boiling corks depressing. I'm willing to go out on a limb
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by gnosis 14y ago
How about instead, "Martha, you no longer have to work at a mind-numbingly boring (and probably unhealthy if not demeaning) job -- we've got robots for that. Instead, we're training you to do more interesting and more fulfilling work. Wh
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by gnosis 14y ago
And you'd probably be much happier sorting corks 16 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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by gnosis 14y ago
Of course they seem to be quite happy. This entire article was basically an infomercial by the wine industry. Do you really expect them to post any photos of obviously miserable workers?
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by gnosis 14y ago
Does anyone else find it depressing that humans are still used for these jobs?
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Why The Professor Can't Teach (1977)(marco-learningsystems.com)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments

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