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FOLLOWS YOU. Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Architectures, Computation. The goal is integrity, not conformity.

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    1. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 25 Oct 2018
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      The white areas are the weak parts that Elon wants to strenghten, because he looks at cars that don’t come back from the road. The crash tests lead to very specific things done to cars that leave red holes in cars coming back from the road.

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    2. StrayTaoist‏ @StrayTaoist 25 Oct 2018
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      I don't think we are really disagreeing here, the medium just confuses the message. While there is not (yet) the virtual equivalent of a pub, nuance gets lost (as well as fine tangentially discussions & flights of fancy.) (Also: I still don't think Musk is any kind of Messiah.)

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    3. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 25 Oct 2018
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      I think that Musk is literally a kind of messiah. His messsianic qualities (projecting meaning) are more relevant than his engineering or business sense when understanding Tesla and SpaceX.

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    4. StrayTaoist‏ @StrayTaoist 25 Oct 2018
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      ..and there are many who look up to him for Divine Guidance, and will defend him blithely and blindly. (Point conceded.) I guess the times get the messiah they deserve. However, his 'hero journey' kinda sucks with no redeeming features (or outlook of redemption).

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    5. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 25 Oct 2018
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      Obviously messiahs are selected from a large pool of candidates using a societal fitness function, so yes, each time get the ones defined by its fitness function. While my fellow leftists often dislike him for having the wrong race and gender, he is doing a pretty decent job, no?

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    6. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 25 Oct 2018
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      Elon accelerated electric cars by at least a decade, made launch vehicles a lot cheaper, built better batteries and deployed them in Australia to make using renewables more feasible, and tries to replace some of air traffic with trains. He pulled several times his weight.

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    7. StrayTaoist‏ @StrayTaoist 25 Oct 2018
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      I'm not convinced (mostly as I am unconvinced by the Great Historical Person trope) & tend to put it down to serendipity/zeitgeist. If not him, would someone else have done it? Sure (or maybe several people, in several different places, maybe at a later date, maybe even better.)

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    8. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 25 Oct 2018
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      Extraordinary positions require people with rare trait combos to fill them. If a job requires that you score 3-4 sigma in just three trait dimensions, it might mean that only a handful of people in the world can do it. Einstein was replaceable, but only with other Einsteins.

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    9. StrayTaoist‏ @StrayTaoist 25 Oct 2018
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      True, but don't you think there would always be another one to replace with? (There is the handwringing argument that the person who has the cure for cancer in their head died in a Delhi slum.) Progress is only linear in culturally contextual hindsight.

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      Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 25 Oct 2018
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      If traits don't matter, you can pick your life partners, friends, CEOs, top scientists, athletes, artists using a lottery. Do you believe that? If traits do matter, do you expect them to be randomly distributed over the total population?

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        1. StrayTaoist‏ @StrayTaoist 25 Oct 2018
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          But it may as well be a lottery as it isn't a meritocracy (or premeditated). It would be interesting experiment to randomly assign CEOs. (Assigning me to a sports team would be cruel voyeurism :) Traits _help_ but needs to be more. Traits as random...hmmm...maybe *thinks more*

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