Mushroom 🍄🟫
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Mushroom 🍄🟫
@wandering_mush
One life, Its worth an attempt. Professional retard. Unemployment maxing




Status update: it's day 7 of our Xinjiang RV roadtrip and we're arriving in Khorgos, a city right on the border with Kazakhstan. And in fact we'll go to Kazakhstan later this afternoon. You can see a video of us arriving in the city 👇- it's a tier-4 city with less than 100k inhabitants (meaning very small by Chinese standards) but, less most Chinese cities these days, it looks very modern and developed.

@zagrebbi I feel this model is too simplistic. Most of that intelligence is just used to run the society, with the amount of labor increasing linearly alongside total population. But genius is also largely a personality outcome, and how much you allow geniuses to break rules.

He's sorta self-contradicting. He doesn't call iterative engineering innovation, yet settles for "more efficient ways to crack down on Winnie the Pooh" as the new baseline post scarcity. That's more or less in the realm of the former. I actually do think iterative innovation is real innovation. We have a lot more of it today simply because the low hanging fruit has been picked. But to the extent new paradigms can be opened, and they are genuinely important and something we absolutely excel at - it seems that's often something that concerns society as a whole and whether it's willing to open up to change. It's like - it sorta matters how many geniuses there are, but there are diminishing returns, and it starts mattering a lot more how much free time they have. The personality factor is probably quite important, also. And it's deeply intertwined with culture.

Rip SF



Haha this is so Vietnamese. My friend's unc who was a phd in eletricial engineering made less money in the 80s than if he had followed his family footstep of collecting shits from building around Hanoi. The lady sitting in a roadside tea shop in front of my company actually had a master degree in chemistry engineering in the 60s but no job due to the war, and with children she had to do whatever to make end meet. When she can finally study, it's already too late. She had forgotten nearly everything. My friend who got silver in national physics olympia, 3 years out of college is making the same money as a bike driver. The dude selling me breakfast every morning on a cheap banhmi roadside stand actually was a senior accountant for like 15 years before he got replaced because of age at 37, and he craved more freedom.





