Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?

I dont get it. projects that don't involve work? projects without need?

projects which give an immediate return, and not the mediate return of the salary.

leisure/schole != lack of projects

(my project, like mikewarot's, is to greenfield Informatics as if we hadn't incurred the path-dependent legacy of [pragmatically driven by miniscule machines of the time] decisions made in the 1960s; unlike his I'm making a totally different likely-wrong set of other decisions :-)

EDIT: hnthrowaway0328, finding fossils (in the right strata) is nearly trivial. Challenge: find some Ediacaran fauna!

Challenge 2: if you haven't already, work through the Feynman Lectures: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu

Hopefully one of you will supersede von Neumann, in one mega Step

With a little luck I'll get ~3 decades more than JvN did, so I have a slim hope that schlep with chutzpah* can make up for lack of brilliance over time!

(that'd be ~8 startups/doctorate programs, so the goods are odd even if the odds are not good)

* to get SAK's long jumps in fitness space

Citation for SAK? (Im getting hints that the keyphrase is “Big Step (vs Small Step) semantics)

Case study here of phoneboothknifefight elevated to a streetside assassination attempt? Positively Getting holyroman here…

You may be familiar with the following characters :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42135916

CH should be optimally hilly for the Odding in the next 3 decades :)

(More frank/brian herbert refs TK)

Should be somewhere in The Origins of Order (as if that narrows anything down!) — keep in mind that I may not even have the original vocab correct, just the basic idea that recombination keeps a population from getting stuck in local minima. (Combined in my head with bacterial taxis: tumble while you're in a food-rich environment, pick a direction if not, and keep straight while gradient is increasing)

BTW I'm innocent of Dune except for hearsay*; given the XXI vibe being what it is, maybe I should remedy that.

As with W40K, I guess I have a "gentleman's knowledge" of the Herbertiverse?

And on the optimal hills: at least we haven't been notified to clear out wine and skis and stock up yet — I was impressed by how efficiently my wife laid up 2 weeks' rations in the "cave" when the italian tourists first brought us Covid, and she asked, what, don't americans learn how to stock their shelter in elementary school too?

Any TP shortages in your locality 2020-2022?

Nothing deep required .

Just the general ecodoomer vibe, plus awareness of the intended message behind the Golden Path/the Weirding Way

The description of the Weirding Way reminded me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74OBuMA2qEk#t=120s

(I was once watching the semifinals of the women's epée nat'l championships, and a former Olympian told me that "B always does the right thing, and that's why she won't win: A knows how to do the wrong thing at the right moment, and that's why she's a champion")

wrt to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42216196 : my impression of non-human violence is that they are better than we at avoiding violence when the power balance is clear; it's mostly with young animals or moments where the status quo threatens to have been merely a stasis quo that application of violence becomes necessary. (compare Cherryh, Foreigner)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic02W1bWeFU