I feel like engineering was pushed on us in school rather than deciding college majors from first principles. There is this engineering hardo culture among students where they think its the hardest thing so all the best students pile in to it in order to prove how smart and elite they are. when I majored in CS it was kind of a backwater for people who were not good enough at math to be engineering and the professors were all these oddballs. In hindsight it was lucky I wasnt good enough at engineering or I would be a mechanical engineer right now, and we don't make anything in this country.
I remember in my highschool engineering had this hardo culture where all the top students were planning to major in it. Luckily I was not good enough at physics and calculus so I ended up in CS. Now I am rich though so it worked out and I have a bentley flying spur
There is another element to all of that. Large complex systems tend to have a lot of built-in inertia as they essentially recursively recreate themselves through time to maintain internal stability. They also tend to accumulate & institutionalize some errors, which can become dogmas at some point with very few realizing where that or the other practice came from in the first place. Being inside those systems and trying to change them from within can indeed be rather suffocating and they are notoriously difficult to change. Woke culture being a distraction perhaps fits into that, but then it's probably not even a distraction, but a reaction aimed at releasing and funneling all that supressed energy that's trapped inside the system (and we're talking about young people who tend to have a lot of that). Anyway, great discussion. Also, Manhattan project succeeded wildly in part because it didn't have those built-in deeple institutionalized customs and rules, that being a new insitutution. Well, in addition to an incredible accumulation of the brightest minds of that era, virtually unlimited resources and the ambitious goals that they were chasing, strict discipline notwithstanding, because I'm sure it was exhilarating for everyone involed to play around with things that it would take years to get funding for in academia
Corporate investment in R&D down, funding of universities down, government investment in R&D down. Cost of education way up. Well that was tough. But don't worry, China is racing ahead.
Really ? I am responding to your comment in 2024 with a smartphone from 2018 that has practically the same functionalities as my old smartphone from 2014 and that I intend to keep until its battery dies. Now do the mental exercise of comparing a PC from 1995 with one from 1989 and with one from 1983. In the 80s - 90s the most advanced personal computer became an useless and outdated piece of junk in less than 5 years.
@@Trompicavalas Information technology has only changed the surface of the world. The inventions of electricity, airplanes, nuclear power, and artificial fertilizer have changed life itself. Compared to those, smartphones and personal computers are just gadgets. If we want to change the world, we'll need AGI.
no it hasnt bro. our iphones are not even advancing. from 2000-2007 I had like 5 computers since tech was advancing so fast. today my computer is like 7 years old
I will watch at least 3-5times cause don’t wanna miss anything from his mouth
lol
Love this commitment 👏
don't place him on a pedestal, and don't waste your time
I feel like engineering was pushed on us in school rather than deciding college majors from first principles. There is this engineering hardo culture among students where they think its the hardest thing so all the best students pile in to it in order to prove how smart and elite they are. when I majored in CS it was kind of a backwater for people who were not good enough at math to be engineering and the professors were all these oddballs. In hindsight it was lucky I wasnt good enough at engineering or I would be a mechanical engineer right now, and we don't make anything in this country.
I remember in my highschool engineering had this hardo culture where all the top students were planning to major in it. Luckily I was not good enough at physics and calculus so I ended up in CS. Now I am rich though so it worked out and I have a bentley flying spur
There is another element to all of that. Large complex systems tend to have a lot of built-in inertia as they essentially recursively recreate themselves through time to maintain internal stability. They also tend to accumulate & institutionalize some errors, which can become dogmas at some point with very few realizing where that or the other practice came from in the first place. Being inside those systems and trying to change them from within can indeed be rather suffocating and they are notoriously difficult to change. Woke culture being a distraction perhaps fits into that, but then it's probably not even a distraction, but a reaction aimed at releasing and funneling all that supressed energy that's trapped inside the system (and we're talking about young people who tend to have a lot of that).
Anyway, great discussion. Also, Manhattan project succeeded wildly in part because it didn't have those built-in deeple institutionalized customs and rules, that being a new insitutution. Well, in addition to an incredible accumulation of the brightest minds of that era, virtually unlimited resources and the ambitious goals that they were chasing, strict discipline notwithstanding, because I'm sure it was exhilarating for everyone involed to play around with things that it would take years to get funding for in academia
Corporate investment in R&D down, funding of universities down, government investment in R&D down. Cost of education way up. Well that was tough.
But don't worry, China is racing ahead.
GOOD!!
The current wave of regulatory capture on software will stop the bits and bytes revolution in its track.
I heard Peter hates the main stream media. I’d love to talk to this guy. MSM is 🚮
Tech progress has progressed faster and faster, and is still accelerating.
Really ? I am responding to your comment in 2024 with a smartphone from 2018 that has practically the same functionalities as my old smartphone from 2014 and that I intend to keep until its battery dies.
Now do the mental exercise of comparing a PC from 1995 with one from 1989 and with one from 1983. In the 80s - 90s the most advanced personal computer became an useless and outdated piece of junk in less than 5 years.
@@Trompicavalas Information technology has only changed the surface of the world.
The inventions of electricity, airplanes, nuclear power, and artificial fertilizer have changed life itself.
Compared to those, smartphones and personal computers are just gadgets.
If we want to change the world, we'll need AGI.
no it hasnt bro. our iphones are not even advancing. from 2000-2007 I had like 5 computers since tech was advancing so fast. today my computer is like 7 years old
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because we are humans and have limits something peter thiel has no comprehension of.
Just test medical procedures for 45 years, just to be safe…!
But COVID vacine, in that case 4 months is enough to "safely" innoculate it to the whole world population
Woke? Such bullshit
Haha... Yeah, it's a bit slow now... Mr Thiel is confused perhaps? 😂 Disappointed in life, the emptiness of isolation?
Happiness can be found in small things, Mr Thiel
Wasn’t this guy just exposed as a federal agent?
Huh?
he is part of the military industrial complex and proud of it so I wouldn't say he could be 'exposed'