Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
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Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
#22I'm reminded troublemakers are the ones who often change history and make huge piles of money but are seldom stable marriage prospects. On the other hand, those whose who are too timid make great marriage prospects but are seldom remembered. There's not much middle ground in the agreeableness trait, except to use disagreeableness with discretion.
Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you were in your 30s when the modern internet was born, then you're in your 70s now. The early pioneers and contributors are old now.
I can't imagine myself not being "with it" and having some knowledge about current technology.. Do you think any of the early modern Internet pioneers know about LLMs? (Besides John Nagle)? Or does the brain biologically give up on processing new information?
To make a blanket anecdotal statement, personally they seem to be fairly with it on new technologies. Not the most in depth understanding but definitely above the average person.
Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
#24Why are there many people dying the last few days? I am reading hacker news every day, but it feels like there’s at least a death note or two a day currently
Winter and the baby boom?
Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
The number of people dying will increase two score and ten years [2] after a baby boom [1] like the United States post-war baby boom. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boom [2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2090%3A10...
also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion
Modern medical miracles aside, I doubt the die-off of baby boomers all within a short period is a clustering illusion.
Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
#26Why are there many people dying the last few days? I am reading hacker news every day, but it feels like there’s at least a death note or two a day currently
The boomers are dying. Life expectancy is 76 years in the US.
Which reminds me, that middle-age is actually 38. I'm halfway done with my life.
Yikes!
Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
#27I'm reminded troublemakers are the ones who often change history and make huge piles of money but are seldom stable marriage prospects. On the other hand, those whose who are too timid make great marriage prospects but are seldom remembered. There's not much middle ground in the agreeableness trait, except to use disagreeableness with discretion.
What? This isn’t remotely true. Do you have any data to back this up?
Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
#28Love seeing Vint Cerf reduced to a “Google executive”
Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
#29If anyone has the means, it may be worthwhile to invest in life extension research. We’re losing more great minds every year.
Re: Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
#30I absolutely loved Wild at Heart!
He will be missed.