This is actually the right question to ask.
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Robin Hanson
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Robin Hanson
@robinhanson
Let’s skip witty banter & talk deep Qs.
Books: ageofem.com elephantinthebrain.com
Advisor @_futarchy @MetaDAOProject @butterygg
- Uh, why is there a thin vertical strip of high fertility? And why does it map so close to a time zone boundary?!Fertility around the country.
- Replying to @wfbarksdaleThere was in fact a next big thing after the iPhone launched.
- Replying to @madeofmistak3They didn't know you were aware of better options and willing to bother to make a change.
- Its a good question, why didn't electric knives become more popular?1963, The electric knife. They were so well received it was assumed that by our era it would have been common for even tableware.
00:00 - Replying to @robinhansonThe current burst of AI activity will likely fade, as have many bursts before, before the future burst when AI actually takes over the world. Something else will be the "big thing" between future AI bursts.
- It still amazes me that academic fields, connected by co-citation, are arranged in a ring. Is there a missing "dark field" in the middle that we will find someday to connect it all together well?
- All that fun is fully available to smart people; they just tend to choose otherwise.
- Replying to @robinhanson"Englishman William Lee, who invented an early mechanized knitter that would allow people to make clothes in a fraction of the normal time. In 1589, he finally secured an audience with Queen Elizabeth I with the hopes of being issued a royal patent. Sadly, his hopes were
- "someone not very diverse"“You have someone not very diverse leading the campaign.” Oh okay, ban white blonde women from advertisements then I guess.
- I'm told the once internal CIA prediction markets are no more, and not because they weren't accurate.
- I see a coordinated effort by a big elite coalition to crush Twitter now due to its current leader defying its stated wishes. If this succeeds, many other orgs will learn big lesson to fall in line. Such threats have often been made before, but rarely defied & thus carried out.
