@paulg When I was a kid I had an older musician tell me that one should try to be in bands where all the other members are better musicians. But yeah, it would be cool if people were honest about it
@ThePrimeagen One irony here is that people love their IKEA furniture precisely because they had to put (a very small) amount of effort in to get the final product
@growing_daniel Only when the last rare earth is mined, the last megawatt-hour consumed, and the last ocean is boiled, will we realize we cannot eat tokens.
@LaurenceBSiegel@PatrickHeizer Early Wittgenstein vs. later Wittgenstein, Frege vs. Gödel, Classical Planning / Prolog for AI vs. Deep Neural Nets.
The belief that pure logic was all you needed was very extreme in the early 1900s, and a bit naive. Logic is great, but it's more limited than what was believed
@PatrickHeizer And yes, if you're coming from the tradition that loves finding logical loopholes to literally fool God, then you're in a good position to logicmaxx
@PatrickHeizer It's probably something like influence from an intellectual scene that existed in Vienna in the early 1900s. An unshakeable belief in the power of logic etc. We of course know better now, but if you're an early logicmaxxer there were a lot of discoveries to be made