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Sat Sep 20 17:40:19 UTC 2014 <moriarty> i admire and despise Thiel all at once
Sat Sep 20 17:40:10 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, the informal route is filled with potential pitfalls to make the same mistakes
Sat Sep 20 17:39:46 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, sure, but let's not discount formal education also as the path to avoid mistakes made by saner individuals in the past
Sat Sep 20 17:39:22 UTC 2014 <xmj> moriarty: formal education is just paper
Sat Sep 20 17:39:10 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> !up moriarty
Sat Sep 20 17:38:59 UTC 2014 <moriarty> attempts at understanding AI
Sat Sep 20 17:38:55 UTC 2014 <moriarty> i honestly believe that under different circumstances, these individuals would have made real progress in society
Sat Sep 20 17:38:39 UTC 2014 <moriarty> i am sincerely impressed by the attempts they have made without formal education
Sat Sep 20 17:38:27 UTC 2014 <moriarty> at least formally i have worked in the field of AI and have come across lesswrong in my past
Sat Sep 20 17:38:10 UTC 2014 <moriarty> i am into artificial intelligence
Sat Sep 20 17:36:15 UTC 2014 <moriarty> if i were feeling benevolent, i should actually sponsor some of them for formal education :) but then neuroscience has something to say about how intellect not developed before a certain age would have the door closed on them at some point
Sat Sep 20 17:36:09 UTC 2014 <xmj> moriarty: you're forgetting high-iq math/physics/compsci crowd
Sat Sep 20 17:35:30 UTC 2014 <moriarty> lesswrong.com typical profile is someone who has fallen between the cracks of society so typically someone without formal education, self-proclaimed didact, home-schooled, etc
Sat Sep 20 17:33:41 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, economic models are much like scientific models, or any models for that matter, they are inapplicable to reality without an overdose of simplifying assumptions to linearise what would otherwise be a higher dimensionality reality
Sat Sep 20 17:32:59 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, hah
Sat Sep 20 17:32:20 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, but if you are dissatisfied with such simple conclusion, read that Mandelbrot book :)
Sat Sep 20 17:32:09 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, it's nice if you're not a very curious individual
Sat Sep 20 17:32:01 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, that's a rather simplistic view
Sat Sep 20 17:31:11 UTC 2014 <moriarty> :)
Sat Sep 20 17:31:09 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, so if you have the street smarts to not trust used-car dealers, i hope you do the same for the government or powers that be