[HN Gopher] Highlights from the Comments on IRBs
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Highlights from the Comments on IRBs
Author : feross
Score : 20 points
Date : 2023-04-17 23:30 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (astralcodexten.substack.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (astralcodexten.substack.com)
| dang wrote:
| Recent and related:
|
| _Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35533564 - April 2023 (46
| comments)
| oh_sigh wrote:
| Neither here nor there, but why does astralcodexten seem so much
| less interesting than slatestarcodex?
|
| Is it because he is no longer anonymous and reels in his wilder
| thoughts? Is he suffering from too much fame? Greater urgency in
| publishing now on substack?
| zamfi wrote:
| Not to be intentionally provocative, but have you considered
| that it might be you who has changed?
|
| But really, personality or interest drift on either side could
| result in this...
| stnmtn wrote:
| He had a post about this, "Why do I suck now?"
|
| I think a good point brought up is, how many novel ideas can
| one person have before treading the same ground again?
|
| https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-do-i-suck
| slothtrop wrote:
| This idea of the low-hanging fruit being accounted for is
| also brought up in a post about rates of significant
| scientific discovery over time.
|
| At any rate I still think his writing is great in general.
| Although I'm kind of bored of the AI obsession the rat-
| adjacent circles have.
| tarboreus wrote:
| Funny, I kind of enjoy it more. Possibly I'm being boring.
|
| I think he's just older. He tends to sound less sweeping and
| more reasonable in his posts these days.
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