The more important point is that we should stop sabotaging the ship we're in.

> There is no better way to put it. I feel like I’ve joined a literal revolutionary war, surrounded by and fighting alongside guerilla troops, and it’s win or die.

What a load of self-aggrandizing bullshit. How do we keep minting these guys with a completely confabulated sense of perspective?

Hah I hear you, but a charitable way to read it is that this is how he feels after leaving Google's cushy, risk-averse, monopoly-supported comfort zone in the US (which is what the first part focuses on) and being airdropped into the "warzone" of a rapidly growing startup in a fast-paced, competitive environment in a developing country.

It's a figure of speech. It's short for "care enough to to take action."

No it’s not.

It’s short for: post on the internet to strangers.

> You have to hope there's an audience who will [post on the internet to strangers].

No, I don't think that's what they're saying.

This is exaggerative conjecture. I've read Bostrom. It's science fiction.

It's pretty funny when you call something science fiction when you live in a world that for all intents and purposes is science fiction. The forum we're communicating on is science fiction. Getting in a car and traveling at 100 mph for hours burning the ghosts of creatures millions of years old is science fiction. The pixies in your wall plug you enslave to move heavy things are science fiction. The medicine you take to stay alive is science fiction. Getting in a plane and flying around the world in hours is science fiction. Launching rockets to space is science fiction. How far do I need to go on?

Science fantasy is something that can't happen because the laws of physics won't allow it. Hard science fiction is just something we've not made work yet.

The stuff around evolutionary algorithms is things that have a workable means of occurring. Emergence in evolutionary algorithms has been shown to occur again and again and again.

Unlike communicating via glass panels processing information at near-lightspeed, relayed by fiber optic cables laid down across thousands of miles of ocean floor, processed in datacenters filled to the brim with transistors etched at atom-scale.

You better start believing in science fiction; you’re surrounded by it.

I've made this point on this forum before.

These are natural rights. The constitution, as you say, delineates state powers as a necessary infringement upon those rights.

Well, you see, when people invest their resources in any venture, they incur an "opportunity" cost.

On the contrary, the pro is likely to prefer tabs—you can adjust the display-width for better ergonomics.

Good, then you're not a scab!

What makes this a luxury? I've met many people in my life, and this gives me the opportunity to pick-and-choose with whom I do business. It's a matter of degree.

Plus, I've been on the receiving end, too. Is this not simply adulthood?

"Buy more lottery tickets!"

no, it's "buy lottery tickets to exclusive lotteries".

the ability to enter such lotteries is where success lies. either through connections or ability.

If you need connections and ability then you are back to luck.

those can be cultivated.

To a degree maybe but the degree differs dramatically for different people. To give an extreme, someone with a significant disability growing up in an impoverished family in the middle of nowhere is generally going to have very little opportunity to cultivate connections and ability.

In my metaphor, "lottery winners" is already representing exclusivity.