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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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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Though I’m an engineer by training I’m mediocre at it aptitude-wise, but more importantly I’m not particularly “true” to the spirit of it. Seeing the world in improvability terms is *not* natural for me. I think I’m equally mediocre at physics and philosophy but more true to those orientations.
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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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