General Discussion

But gotta "win the AI race with Jaina!!"



I particularly enjoyed the quote "Go to space and you can ignore the scarcity of resources."



From the article:

Ketcham: I’ve noticed a phrase you like to use: That’s not how the world works. These people, it seems, are divorced from the reality of the world.

Becker: Yeah, they are. They have completely misunderstood how the world works, how science works, how people work. I know I keep hammering away at Andreesen, because he’s my least favorite person in the entire book. He says in that unhinged manifesto of his that he is the keeper of the true scientific method, contrasting himself with academic scientists. Well, buddy, first of all, you wouldn’t need to say it so loud if it were true. And second, the real scientific method is not to have a statement of beliefs about what the world is and how it works, or what the inevitable future of technology is. The real scientific method is to be curious and questioning about the world and be open, constantly open, to the possibility that you’re wrong – in fact, expecting that you’re wrong. And that’s not something these people are capable of.