1/ Lately, this has unnerved me A LOT. If you say a few buzzwords and have at least a tutorial-level understanding of them (e.g. "deep learning"), otherwise smart people often feel compelled to give you their time, money, or business thinking, "I've struck gold." https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1123023204510052352 …
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2/ I guess that's historically true for technology, but it's extremely weird for me to experience. Like, I'll start explaining an idea of mine by introducing the current "state of the art," and it generates salivating interest BEFORE I GET TO MY PART. Feels very tulip-y.
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Yeah, the minting and selling of narrative to the less clueful is a very big bubble. It ends with the end of as-if growth... hopefully sometime before humanity disappears in a new carboniferous era
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I hadn't heard "as-if growth" before. That is a very apt phrase.
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Peter Wang Retweeted Eric Weinstein
I only steal from the best. See
@EricRWeinstein on Embedded Growth Obligationshttps://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1091743271875895297?lang=en …Peter Wang added,
Eric WeinsteinVerified account @EricRWeinsteinI’ve been talking about unmeetable “Embedded Growth Obligations” or E.G.O.s as the reason why all our expert communities are under unbearable pressure to distort across our institutions. The physics community is *very* trustworthy on the experiment-theory level. Yet even here: https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1091582806021623808 …Show this thread1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
I have a TODO note from years ago telling me to toy around with a Hyman Minsky ABM. Gonna attach this to that.
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