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Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
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Re: Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
You think the power grid fell out of the head of some master craftsman thinking in decades? They dont teach the history of science for various reasons, but its basically a ledger of how over rated 3 inch chimp brain intelligence is. The power grid is thing of beauty. Today. But the path to that Beauty is one train wreck after another. Boiler explosions that kill hundreds. Wiring that burns down towns. Transformers th…
Anyway, the original “power grid” guy was not some master craftsman or engineer, he was the original STEM influencer: Edison. He also popularized short videos.
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Re: Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
#73The folks who keep the power grid running, write compilers, secure the internet, and design dependable systems don’t get viral fame, but their contributions are far more critical. That imbalance is no small thing; it shapes who gets funded, who feels validated, and who decides to pursue a challenge that doesn’t promise a quick TikTok moment or a crypto-style valuation bump. A complex technological civilization depend…
Just wanna say, I love this paragraph so much, I created HN account just to upvote it.
Re: Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
#74> "The future won’t reward effort. It’ll reward leverage." (From the Cluely ad) JFC kill me now that is NOT a future I want to live in.
This became clear to me over the last few years. We are quickly returning to a world of entrenched social hierarchy where there are lords and peasants and little room even for social mobility. With the corpse of meritocracy too rotted to deny at this point the elite simply seem to have run out of lies for placating the people. Or, more likely the people are so sickeningly impotent, that’s there’s no need for the lies…
That ultimately happens from entrenched geopolitical situations as well.
However, I think we are entering an age of geopolitical chaos. And that will be a darwinian struggle of functioning governance systems.
Re: Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
#75The folks who keep the power grid running, write compilers, secure the internet, and design dependable systems don’t get viral fame, but their contributions are far more critical. That imbalance is no small thing; it shapes who gets funded, who feels validated, and who decides to pursue a challenge that doesn’t promise a quick TikTok moment or a crypto-style valuation bump. A complex technological civilization depend…
> The folks who keep the power grid running ... I find this a great choice for an opener. If linesman across the nation go on strike, its a week before the power is off everywhere. A lot of people seem to think the world is simple, and a reading of 'I, Pencil' would go far enlighten them as to how complicated things are. > secure the internet... Here, again, are we doing a good job? We keep stacking up turtles, layer…
stacking turtles????
Re: Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
#76> "We're big believers in protein," Roy said. "It's impossible to get fat at Cluely. Nothing here has any fat."
Clueless.
Re: Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
#77Kriss doesn't touch on the deeper issue of why investors keep giving money to people that openly advertise themselves as con artists.
Building a successful startup is very hard, and not just in the "it's a lot of hard work" sense, but also in terms of making good decisions. For the average person who went to college and worked in some other industry/capacity, the good decisions are very counterintuitive. Most VCs have no idea how to accuratly judge startups based on their core merit, or how to make good decision in startups (though they may think t…
So... You think it's because the VCs are conning their investors and those con-man are the best extend and pretend opportunities?
I can believe in that. But just a couple of years ago it was clearly happening because the VCs wanted those people to sell the companies into some mark and return real money to them. I wonder when did the investors became the marks?
Re: Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
#78> Not long before I arrived in the Bay Area, I’d been involved in a minor but intense dispute with the rationalist community over a piece of fiction I’d written that I’d failed to properly label as fiction
Anyone familiar with what work this is referring to?
Re: Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
#79Brilliant article.
Now consider Reddit.
On r/hacking people tend to understand the danger of mindlessness and support war against it: https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/1r55wvg/poison_fou...
In constrast r/programming is full of, let's call them "bot-heads", who are all-in on mindlessness: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1r8oxt9/poison...
Re: Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
#80> "We're big believers in protein," Roy said. "It's impossible to get fat at Cluely. Nothing here has any fat." Clueless.
The brain needs fat to function - that explains a lot