Excellent interview of Scott Aaronson
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/scott-aaronson-answers-every-ridiculously-big-question-i-throw-at-him/
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//Scott Aaronson on utopia: “I love when the human race gains new
knowledge, in math or history or anything else. I love when important
decisions fall into the hands of people who constantly second-guess
themselves and worry that their own ‘tribe’ might be mistaken, who are
curious about science and have a sense of the ironic and absurd. I love
when society’s outcasts, like Alan Turing or Michael Burry (who
predicted the subprime mortgage crisis), force everyone else to pay
attention to them by being inconveniently right. And whenever I read
yet another thinkpiece about the problems with ‘narrow-minded STEM
nerds’—how we’re basically narcissistic children, lacking empathy and
social skills, etc. etc.—I think to myself, ‘then let everyone else be
as narrow and narcissistic as most of the STEM nerds I know; I have no
further wish for the human race.’”
/Brent/
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