[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:
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       |  _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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