Question I spend a lot of time thinking about: >70% of my friends are software engineers or data scientists. What would they have been doing if they were born 50 years earlier and where did all these other jobs go?
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In the same vein: people criticized the "Tesla roadster in orbit"-thing as a symbol of commercialization of space exploration. Which, for me, is an improvement from the symbol of conquering the moon with a flag to demonstrate you can nuke your enemies
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playing Robin Hanson here, that's not clear at all - easy to construct an argument that progress net benefited from people [successfully] working on war technology, e.g. was there a path to humanity getting modern metallurgy without war?https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1153893734192504832 …
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the "smartest minds" weren't trying to kill each other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip …
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I mean, not literally killing each other with their minds. Although...https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/ …
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They're building the models that optimize ad clicks, stock trades, insurance claims, and more. Also writing the software for rockets to land themselves, cars to drive themselves. There's not enough of them...
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