[ExI] [Extropolis] trump

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 4:48 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> Universities, ja.  I have no confidence in them.

As far as I know, all the work leading up to EP came out of
universities.  Long list Wilson is near the top.  People who influence
me include Buss, Tooby, Cosmedes, and Barkow.

> I am not familiar enough with current sociology and psychology departments to comment, however those departments are not where the real action is.  If one wants to carry out of a university anything worth the enormous opportunity cost and monetary expense of a college education, one is advised to steer away from those areas and get where deeper truth is revealed from equations and algorithms.  The end goal is to make cool stuff which people want to buy.

You miss the main reason to go to a prestigious university.  The main
point is missed by just about everyone.  The only counter-example I
know about is Esther Dyson.  She understood and used the opportunity
to its fullest extent.  Read the Wikipedia page about her.  The real
money is not made by worker drones that design or make widgets.
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> Keith I fully embrace the notion that EP has genetically programmed me to write comments such as the paragraph above.  Cool!

Oh?  What evolved psychological trait motivates you to post?

> spike
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