Jack comments on Best career models for doing research? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jack 10 December 2010 08:12:49PM 2 points [-]

Upvoted for the excellent summary!

"most people are irrational, hypocritical and selfish, if you try and tell them they shoot the messenger, and if you try and do anything you bear all the costs, internalize only tiny fractions of the value created if you succeed, and you almost certainly fail to have an effect anyway. And by the way the future is an impending train wreck"

Comment author: katydee 10 December 2010 08:14:28PM 3 points [-]

I'm curious about the "future is an impending train wreck" part. That doesn't seem particularly accurate to me.

Comment author: FormallyknownasRoko 10 December 2010 08:18:52PM *  1 point [-]

Maybe it will all be OK. Maybe the trains fly past each other on separate tracks. We don't know. There sure as hell isn't a driver though. All the inside-view evidence points to bad things,with the exception that Big Worlds could turn out nicely. Or horribly.

Comment author: timtyler 10 December 2010 08:56:57PM 0 points [-]

Perhaps try this one: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

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