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I heard about YC, PG, and sama all through this outlet.
I'm very curious who these two billionaires are and what exactly are they planning to do regarding this likely hopeless project.
Thinking democracy's success is tied to economic growth is a pretty dim worldview. I hope he's wrong about that.
Thinking democracy's success is tied to economic growth is a pretty dim worldview. I hope he's wrong about that.
Lecture on said book http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bfriedman/files/moral_conse...
Foreign Affairs review http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bfriedman/files/the_ethical...
Thinking democracy's success is tied to economic growth is a pretty dim worldview. I hope he's wrong about that.
I had to change the font so I was able to read the article.
But: it's about the least interesting thing that can be said about this article. And whoever is responsible at the New Yorker will never see these comments.
I think dang has said these kind of comments are off-topic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236332#9238739
I personally don't think "The choices you've made exclude part of your audience, and may not be compatible with laws around accessibility" is bike-shedding, but I have stopped commenting on design choices.
> “The merge has begun—and a merge is our best scenario. Any version without a merge will have conflict: we enslave the A.I. or it enslaves us. The full-on-crazy version of the merge is we get our brains uploaded into my butt. I’d love that,” he said.
I had to disable the extension to verify that it was its work and not the actual quote.
> It’s all about founders. Facebook had Mark Zuckerberg, and MySpace had a bunch of monkeys.
The kind of ubermensch/Ayn Rand rhetoric that makes me cringe.
This was a pretty good article -- certainly one of the better portraits I've read of SA. However, I usually see better writing in the New Yorker. Take "as a result, the once nerdy Y Combinator is now aggressively geeky." What the hell does that mean? (Nothing.) OTOH, a few memorable quotes: > Growth masks all problems. (Steve Huffman) > Despite having raised a robust $1.6 million after Demo Day, the founders were rid…
"what intrigues him is their potential effect on the world. To determine that, he’ll upload all he needs to know about, say, urban planning or nuclear fusion."