"One minute ago you had zero husbands. Now you have one husband. So one minute from now you'll have two husbands Next year you'll have 525,600 husbands"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @amolitor99 and
Years ago, I saw an article saying that ten people had been eaten by alligators in Florida that year, compared to just one the year before. I noted that, at that rate of increase, it’d be less than a decade before everyone in the world had been eaten by alligators in Florida.
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The thing to note is that these *aren't* "intelligent people who have been successful in the tech realm", for the most part. Yudkowsky is a high-school dropout who has literally never released a working piece of code. Scott Alexander is a psychiatrist.
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Tech bros are incredibly gullible because they think that being good (assuming they are here for charity) at one field makes them good at another that they have zero experience in. That’s why they keep falling for stupid hype ideas.
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Replying to @ArsonAtDennys @notscottsiskind and
This used to be called "Engineer Disease" Like even before software engineering in particular was a thing, guys with engineering degrees were the ones most likely to be libertarian cranks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and
I thought it was physicist disease
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Replying to @ArsonAtDennys @notscottsiskind and
Engineers are worse because their training is explicitly not in "learning things" but "solving problems"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @notscottsiskind and
Also because engineers tend to get taught simplified versions of technical topics, delude themselves into believing that they’ve mastered those topics, and go argue with the specialists who’ve learned the detailed versions.
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Those two are connected, it's this attitude of "I've learned all I actually NEED to know"
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