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ciphergoth comments on The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem - Less Wrong Discussion

63 Post author: lukeprog 18 January 2012 10:30PM

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Comment author: malthrin 19 January 2012 12:48:45AM 28 points [-]

There's a phrase that the tech world uses to describe the kind of people you want to hire: "smart, and gets things done." I'm willing to grant "smart", but what about the other one?

The sequences and HPMoR are fantastic introductory/outreach writing, but they're all a few years old at this point. The rhetoric about SI being more awesome than ever doesn't square with the trend I observe* in your actual productivity. To be blunt, why are you happy that you're doing less with more?

*I'm sure I don't know everything SI has actually done in the last year, but that's a problem too.

Comment author: ciphergoth 20 January 2012 08:09:40AM 3 points [-]

"smart and gets things done" I think originates with Joel Spolsky:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html