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Maybe all i'm suggesting is that AI can help us quickly check that what we humans are working on is indeed insane ( and switch to something else if it passes their sanity checks)

The causal path from Rodenderry to the ipod .. is.. easy to approximate compared to the causal path from Zen Monks to Darth Vader.. (though they are in roughly opposite directions)

Edit: if I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes, motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could work" and meaning comes from "it works!"

>Money is a path to acquiring sufficient power

Power and money are almost interchangeable, and I'm taking a wild guess that better questions are hidden in that "almost" (as you say, "wisdom+effort", but I'd have to sleep on that for a few nights in order not to casually one-up that with "precience")

Edit: if I were to put myself in Archimedes' shoes, motivation comes from "this is nuts but it could work" and meaning comes from "it works!"

More like survival. I think of Archimedes' letters to the librarian of Alexandria, describing his secret technique of infinitessimals. It seems clear that he knew his work was meaningful but he wasnt going to die without telling anybody about it. He wasn't looking for validation, he didn't need it

Thanks for helping to refine the thinking. I guess the other side of the coin that would be make the paradox interesting is that, in the long term, it has to seem that most of the stuff built with money (but without intrinsically motivated managers) lose out to the stuff built on pure passion. After discounting for a heap of survival bias.

There's this related phenom which seems paradoxical to me but maybe you can help figure:

Things that are built with money (& not by say, intrinsic motivation alone) seem to have a high ratio of (traction) to (resources invested). Not sure if marketing alone can explain that?

Obvious exceptions come to mind , eg the Linux kernel, but even that was massively boosted by commercial interests.

(One other class of exceptions could be tentatively named "winning the zeitgeist lottery")

If you would agree that this phenom exists in the short to mid time frame: without the likelihood of traction, how can intrinsic meaning alone provide motivation?

It's the LinkedIn version of the challenge to tell people they can prove P=NP without te ...

As far as Jane Jacobs (not a professional) is concerned, this is the hardest problem for any tribe of humans: how to survive as a culture?

On values (some say fumes) or on money. Values vs value. Academia back in the days of Athena was a "solution" on the values end of the spectrum. Religion, too, until they figured out they could appeal to the "charity" of the spiritually hungry rich (& later, everyone)

(I appreciate the Benedictine orders for limiting their offer of spiritual goods to some devilish brews )

>Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention

--EAB, Why I Write

(The trick could be for some of us amateurs to preferentially attend to the preternaturally funny babies)

>embarassed

Like I once managed not to be triggered by ex-VC aebtebeten's routine dismissal of the following thesis the pieces of which I then had to shovel back into the incubator: expert embarassment is a seriously under-investigated vehicle that can't be faked in front of hiring committees (/elite managers/apple-ICs-who-cant-help-but-be-promoted-into-???)..

schlep-tolerance (all sorts of tolerance, sprezzatura, even) can be faked (whether until made or not) these days..

Embarassment.. it's only slightly better than self-deprecatory humor (in that the embarassed party explicitly confesses to (not merely) incomplete sentience, but also inexplicable emotional sequelae etc etc)

Now, who's going to devote decades to perfecting performative embarassment? Only someone you must hire at any cost (?) like.. a Soham Parekh who can explain the meta of what he's doing so you'd pay him to continue the shtick

To the guy out there in the arena: sorry! My anti-anhedonia model needs fine-tuning. It's a lifelong slog..

As it is, I'm embarrassed that this stuff doesn't attract upvotes..

Looks like fitzhugh-nagumo with extra terms?

(Or hodgkin-huxley with fewer)

A show-HN mid-dive with Brian simulator would be cool

I was amused that higher quality quartz from Spruce Pines NC (Sibelco) doesn't go into the chips themselves, but the silicon crucibles (makes sense in retrospect because you need your tools to be finer than the product, but as a chip-user..) and display glass