Hey. Good article. I'd like to see the same filter applied against Silicon Valley memes, and what I see as as the near-fatal lack of education in history, languages and arts. Just see Elon for a person who can really do amazing engineering, but is so stupid about foreign affairs that he thinks he can weigh in on Russia and the Middle East.
I am a big believer in the 'fail-fast' methodology - for software - and maybe rockets - but there is a huge hypocrisy in ignoring and failing to learn from the psychology and culture failures. And of course there is the ever-present scourge of financial incentives that are orthogonal to community good.
I think "math person" is just a euphemism for "high functioning autistic person".
As a self-aware rationalist blogger once said: "highly autistic communities might have some systematic epistemological problems related to the high prevalence of autism.”
Hey. Good article. I'd like to see the same filter applied against Silicon Valley memes, and what I see as as the near-fatal lack of education in history, languages and arts. Just see Elon for a person who can really do amazing engineering, but is so stupid about foreign affairs that he thinks he can weigh in on Russia and the Middle East.
I am a big believer in the 'fail-fast' methodology - for software - and maybe rockets - but there is a huge hypocrisy in ignoring and failing to learn from the psychology and culture failures. And of course there is the ever-present scourge of financial incentives that are orthogonal to community good.
I think "math person" is just a euphemism for "high functioning autistic person".
As a self-aware rationalist blogger once said: "highly autistic communities might have some systematic epistemological problems related to the high prevalence of autism.”