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by rain_iwakura
878 days ago
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Yeah this pretty much sums it up:
https://medium.com/the-spike/evolution-doesnt-give-a-damn-wh... Also, Pinker isn't a scientist of any sort, he's an accredited and institutionalized evangelist. You guys wouldn't take opinions of someone going to conferences and trying to convert you to use Go lang instead of something else as seriously as those of Guido Rossum would you? His whole thesis requires an idea of linear progress which is highly contested, and the metrics of happiness he uses also can be easily "Goodhart's Law"ed by him to show whatever he thinks is happening. I'm not even getting to his Epstein stuff, which some might cry foul about, but I grew up around regular people and not in Silicon Valley, so a liar and a cheat in one field is probably a liar and a cheat in another to me, sorry. |
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