The Bay Area is the most intellectually faddish space I have ever been part of. Everyone thinks they’re a rugged iconoclastic individual while all thinking about and trying to solve the same problems at the same time. Ironically, the collective attention prob drives innovation.
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Replying to @generativist
I was listening to
@juliagalef's podcast with@tylercowen where he said the Bay Area was the point of focus of a kind of philosophical movement, a transformative way of thinking about the world/society. I think he's right, but unclear what the philosophy is.5 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
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In terms of faddishness. I think machine learning and string theory (at least when I last paid attention) both have this aspect where huge masses of people all work on appropriately the same problem at approximately in the same time.
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Replying to @kareem_carr
Yes. I mean, it's very Kuhnian. Or, almost like Linus' Law -- you need all the eyeballs focused on something and a common language / set of ideas to figure things out for any domain. SV is funny only insofar as their synchronization mechanism is a useful delusion.
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"I'm a free thinker!" What are you thinking about? "Exactly what that dude who looks like me is thinking about!" How are you thinking about it? "Well, have you read Antifragile?"
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