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Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
It's in Thiel's nature to make moves counter to Altman's. Certainly, he does not share Masa's (or PG's) weakness for the genii of the day. (Secretly despises, actually?) They are kinda nontechnical in the same way (chess or SaaS are equally relevant to the future), but what Thiel has passion for are flexible moral abstractions, not politics (the whys rather than the whats of winning)
Comment · 11 months ago
Detailed perspective from someone with insight into Thiel's thinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6LakOrqDL4&t=1s
That watched, imho Thiel is interested in the post-Straussian tension between "thinking in the open" (ideal science) and "focussed value creation" (which is best done behind closed doors)
AI as driven by premium mediocre Millennials combines the worst of both: lazy group-think promoted by stochastic parrots, expensive hardware weaponized by people who didn't earn that privilege
Capitalism or communism is a false dichotomy. You'd want any given pre-Jedi to access the Force, build their own lightsabers (in a cave), but not turn to the dark side.
GitHub serves Midichlorians. NVDA serves the Federation (and is one of the deadly sins to boot)
Comment · 11 months ago
TIL from a closer read: EasyWriter was made with a custom Forth compiler.
(This looks it came from the 3rd-chance pool... because the rate at which old-timers contribute to
https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
seems to have dropped)
Comment · 11 months ago
So..not even wait-free? (Since you still have locks)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-blocking_algorithm#Obstruc...
Comment · 11 months ago
(1) ac.. I approx Foucault as a centrist, but 'fess that shit could be undecidable ( without reviewing the inputs ) Conservatives are self-destructive :)
(2) Countersignalling is older than your parlance makes it sound. See Fussell Class, hipsters, etc
Comment · 11 months ago
I'm glad that you are still a believer in Coffee!
Other academics think it's bipolar that provides value
https://www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/DarkBrightness.pdf
I've seen others argue for schizotypy using the same biographical examples rotfl.
My working slogan now is "Schizotypes transmute ("magic") Coffee to Coin ("value").
The flip side: (functioning) Schizotypes (adjoining academia) have lost their obsession with magic, AND self-diagnosed this loss with depression/anxiety/senescence etc. it's more subtle imho, but CS is a confounding factor (muddling the pipeline between "dopamine" and "coin", as exemplified by TFA)
Related dysregulatory mechanism (institutional) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-015-9577-2
Status doesn't fuck with Schizotypes all that much... Unless? Let me affirm that you are "NPD-free" from my vantage point :)
Comment · 11 months ago
Guys... Give me say, an accepted PR to mathlib and we can talk entropy
To be concrete, he'd never consciously engage in the kind of circular financing or rentseeking that Altman/Zuck would be open to.
(also he has enough social aptitude not to take Altman on in public.)