To be sheltered from the winds of doctrine is to be kept from contact with reality. The man who is protected against every draught of opinion is kept from the real world; but then, what is the real world?
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Software engineering is verifiable, you can run it through the compiler and see if it works. AI has obviously gotten really good at making software. If you believe the world is just software, that means AI has gotten good, it's done. You can see the labs are talking about how they've achieved AGI or they will very soon and it is very much connected to the ability of AI to write software. I'm just not discounting that that's important. I'm just saying once you get outside of software, verifiability gets way harder.
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I say to people sometimes the biggest mistake that most people make in their career is never making a big mistake because they never take a chance. Um and if you just wait for sure things you basically never do anything. You don't ever make any big mistakes but you never do anything big.
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