Venkatesh Rao ☀️ pfp
Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
The main reason true (but not necessarily “good”) engineers flail so badly and turn into crackpots when they try to do philosophy or physics is they have an agency drive hardwired into firmware so strongly they cannot help but see the world exclusively in terms of ways it is “wrong” and can be “improved”
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
The shift from “it is inefficient” to “it is” either melts or magnifies a mind 😵‍💫
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