←back to thread

Interview with gwern

(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)
308 points synthmeat | 3 comments | 14 Nov 24 08:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
Show context
mola ◴[14 Nov 24 11:48 UTC] No.42135302[source]▶
Everything I read from gwern has this misanthropic undertones. It's hard to put a finger on it exactly, but it grits me when I try reading him. It is also kinda scary that so many people are attracted to this. It rhymes with how I feel about Ayn Rand. Her individualism always seems so misanthropic, her adherants scare me
replies(3): >>42135353 #>>42135368 #>>42135443 #
1. Tenoke ◴[14 Nov 24 12:09 UTC] No.42135443[source]▶
Everything? He also writes things like this: "A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers."

https://gwern.net/improvement

replies(2): >>42136582 #>>42137489 #
2. ◴[14 Nov 24 14:46 UTC] No.42136582[source]▶
3. tolerance ◴[14 Nov 24 15:57 UTC] No.42137489[source]▶
It’s possible that a person can enjoy things that cater to the advancement of “civilization” while being seen as someone indifferent to (or inclined away from) “humanity”. Ie, a materialist.