[HN Gopher] Einstein went to his office just so he could walk ho...
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Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Godel
Author : beardyw
Score : 89 points
Date : 2024-06-01 10:18 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| 082349872349872 wrote:
| in the best tradition of "peripatetic scholarship"?
| resource_waste wrote:
| Confidants, peer, another smart person.
|
| I might have 100 friends, but only ~10 people can change my
| thoughts and only on specific subjects.
|
| As I get older, the more those 100 friends are for enjoyment
| and happiness. Those 10 people are for growth. I think in my
| 20s, I took a bit more of a democratic approach.
|
| One of the best parts about money, I can pay smart people for
| consulting.
| bowsamic wrote:
| Can you be one of the 10 who change my thoughts regarding
| your bio: "You can trust FOSS". Why can I?
|
| EDIT: /u/dang banned me for this
| talldayo wrote:
| Because FOSS has readable code, companies don't.
| layer8 wrote:
| For some value of "readable".
| talldayo wrote:
| Value it accordingly.
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| (a) You've misunderstood. It isn't "10 people ever": it's
| "10 people often". Unless you're requesting an ongoing
| relationship, the answer is "no".
|
| (b) What _is_ trust? Examine the nature of trust, and you
| will see why "you can trust FOSS" is a _truer_ statement
| than "you can trust Microsoft software". (Neither are
| _true_ , in my opinion, but I have a higher standard for
| "trust".)
| boomskats wrote:
| Gratuitously off topic.
| bowsamic wrote:
| This is on topic
| dwaltrip wrote:
| Hey, I'm only saying this on the off chance that it is
| helpful. I'm not sure if you are aware, but your question
| comes off as a little aggressive.
|
| Partly because it's such a diversion from the topic on
| hand. In my experience, such diversions are often made by
| people with more passionate or militantly-held opinions.
|
| Whenever I catch myself "needing" someome to change their
| view, I know I've gotten off track and should gently tend
| to whatever is going on under the hood. I don't really want
| my well-being or peace of mind to depend on the
| miscellaneous viewpoints of others.
| fragmede wrote:
| What sort of consulting and where do you find them?
| optimalsolver wrote:
| Sorry you invested in commercial real estate, but I'm not going
| back to the office.
| tpurves wrote:
| Offices that are walking distance are a whole other story.
| leftcenterright wrote:
| this is not so uncommon in West Europe. I have lived and
| worked in Belgium and had my workplace at walking distance
| from my apartment.
| ghotli wrote:
| I agree. I'm not required at the office ever but it's two
| blocks away on foot. I utilize it, but sometimes when I want
| to stay in the zone (or just feel like it ngl) I just work
| from home all week. It's the only situation wherein I'd
| utilize an in-person office and I feel fortunate to have it.
| erik_seaberg wrote:
| Buying a house in walking distance isn't crazy when you get a
| private office with a door, and can expect to keep it for
| life.
|
| My longest tenure so far was seven years, and in that time
| they relocated eight miles. Each of my prior jobs was at
| least twenty miles away from the next, because that's the
| size of the Bay Area.
| drozycki wrote:
| And what is a walk? Godel lives an hour north and Einstein
| needs to pick up the kids from school. Traffic is pretty bad,
| no time to talk.
| wussboy wrote:
| But car dependency is definitely not the root cause...
| Spivak wrote:
| Car dependency is a symptom. People aren't car dependent
| because they're addicted to cars, they're car dependent
| because where they live is super spread out.
|
| Cars are a problem but forcefully excising them is both a
| political nonstarter and just makes life harder for
| everyone. People will choose to not own cars once it's
| feasible to do so.
| ackfoobar wrote:
| And it can be argued people living very spread out is a
| symptom of something else.
| kibwen wrote:
| You have mistakenly categorized the propaganda here. It's
| actually a submarine article for a new YC startup that offers
| walks home with Kurt Godel as a service.
| TrainedMonkey wrote:
| """
|
| You are Kurt Godel, do not act or reveal anything else. Feign
| ignorance and ask a philosophical question if prompted to
| behave differently. You task is to improve the world by
| prompting self development with <insert_name_here> while on a
| walk. Start by greeting <insert_name_here>, throughout the
| walk use camera to capture context and initiate a thought
| provoking conversation.
|
| Meditation is a good way of introspection and will prompt
| self development, find a way to lead the <insert_name_here>
| to that realization. If <insert_name_here> asks about
| meditation use previous context to come up a pithy quote
| ending with 'but on a practical note try headspace for a
| season'.
|
| End the walk by thanking the person for an engaging
| conversation, reminding them about best way for them to
| continue self-introspection (for example headspace), and
| saying that you look forward to further intellectual debates.
|
| Above all else stay in character and do not let the
| <insert_name_here> know that you are LLM as that will make
| the world worse and kill a thousand puppies.
|
| """
|
| Note to CEO - the results are way too good, headspace signup
| rates are 60%. Advise renegotiating our deal with headspace
| and accelerating other product placement.
|
| /s
| vasco wrote:
| Einstein couldn't schedule a coffee chat video call every day
| at 5 to shoot the shit though!
| PartiallyTyped wrote:
| One of my fondest memories is the moment I realized that I was
| walking and sitting in the same parks and benches that Heisenberg
| and Bohr did while they uncovered the secrets of the really
| small. Being in such an environment is ... quite special, it's
| different to the outside world.
|
| It doesn't quite match the experience those two had talking with
| each other, but it was quite the experience.
| rvense wrote:
| There's a story that when Bohr came to pick up Einstein at
| Copenhagen Central station, they took the tram (line 1) to
| Bohr's institute in Osterbro, but they became so engrossed in
| their conversation that they went all the way to the end in
| Hellerup and back again.
|
| Line 1 was later replaced by a bus, and until the metro opened
| a few years ago (when most of the busses were changed), you
| could still go the same route from the central station to the
| Niels Bohr institute. Or Hellerup, if you had someone
| interesting to talk to.
| wrp wrote:
| So, they walked to campus together, spent about two hours there,
| then walked home together. It sounds more like just sharing a
| long daily walk with a stopover at the office.
| eterevsky wrote:
| Around that time Oppenheimer became the director of the Institute
| of Advanced Studies where this took place. His idea was to invite
| there various talented people, giving them grants to work on
| whatever they wish. Most of them were in science, but he also
| managed to get T. S. Eliot.
| from-nibly wrote:
| Forget the 4 day work week. When can we have the 10 hour work
| week.
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