lyricalpolymath's comments

stay tuned on http://www.eyevel.com ;)

ASK PG: when you are saying "energetic" people, do you also mean "passionately convinced"?

It's interesting that on one side you try to avoid the pitfalls of your own beliefs (by smartly adopting meta-beliefs and techniques that sidestep the problem, like believing in change and focusing on people) but at the same time you are suggesting that you somehow accept, or decide to trust, the worldview of "energetic" founders.

You might not mean it, but this connection is somehow untold in the classical narrative of the driven founder: there is a fine line between "energetic" and "passionately convinced", which also suggests that they might have and communicate strong beliefs in their success or their idea. Of course I understand that "strong beliefs" aren't forcefully connected with being an expert, which is your main argument.

PG, Where do you stand on this? do you believe in founder's beliefs? Do founders who passionately believe in something convince you?

I feel very sympathetic to the argument of your essay, for many reasons, and have grown to use the same meta-belief of believing in change; however, instead of sidestepping the problem, I tackle it heads on, by incorporating Doubt and Relativism in my decision making. I feel, and strongly believe ;), that Relativism is the cure to many cognitive biases; if you doubt yourself you can't be affected by the Dunning-Kruger effect; I think everybody should train themselves in managing the unavoidable cognitive dissonances of day to day life, it would make the world a better place. Relativism is also an important tool for creativity: the moment you doubt your frame of reference, you start seeing the picture outside of the box, new possibilities open up.

Of course Relativism has it's shortcomings, and beliefs, which are rooted in emotions, command our behaviours more powerfully that the logical reasonings of Relativism. However, I believe, there are ways for us to be both "passionately convinced" and relativistic at the same time; I try to be like Cezanne, who would ask himself: "is this what I see?"

> "There is no such thing as having two beliefs of equal weight that contradict each other"

Of course there is and the situation in which you find it is called Cognitive Dissonance [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

the first trick was a meta-belief > believe in change

thanks. I sent it to the email provided on https://escapologybb.com/contact/ if you want to antispam-edit this post with your email

Totally agree on the need of dedicated connections... for many reasons ;)

however often a problem with conferences and large gatherings is that even if there are separate Wifis and on different channels the (constructive/destructive) interference is still bad enough that the connection slows down anyways.

I know there are solutions out there, it's a matter of cost and time before they become widely available. (I'm hoping it will happen tomorrow ;))

Hi Stuart, thanks for sharing this and your experience. It's very inspiring to us as we are currently developing another "extensible self" tool [0] that will empower you to "remote control" real people (we call them agents) and show you around, even where drones are not allowed or there isn't someone who can set it up for you. Can we send you an email and ask you a few questions?

Moreover, can you share a bit how the streaming feed is setup?

[0] http://eyevel.com

sorry thurn, this is off topic: is there a complaint / improvement suggestion page for G+? there are some serious design bugs in G+ that we'd love to have/solve(d) :)

We hacked this nonsense by creating a simple redirect on our website: http://eyevel.com/G+ ;) You can too! It's a simple htaccess line or a router on your app

put this into the .htaccess of your host and change where appropriate (yourdomain, extension and G+ long userID)

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourDomain\.com$ [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yourDomain\.com$

RewriteRule ^B\@G\+$ "https\:\/\/plus\.google\.com\/103815970554408703928\/posts" [R=301,L]

thanks! A few days ago there was another article suggesting that the best time to post was around 19h in the evening (GMT) which is consistent with what you say of 11-12 AM PST. The only difference was the day, he was posting on sunday I believe.

what day of the week were the 2 failed attempts posted on?

I'm trying to sense the pulse of the HN crowd, to see when we all slack off the most ;)

Nice Idea, localized networks are trending fast. Do you remember what day of the week and at what time you posted the successful HN post? what about those that didn't work?

Yes that would be a solution too. But I think it increases the barrier to action and participation of the members of the group. I don't use that much Twitter so I would probably miss on the request for help.

I think the automatic bot style is the way to go. The importance is not the "really thought out message" that someone can send, while rather the low latency, the immediacy of the reply to those that need it. So timing is more important. At least this is what I felt from the positive comments you showed off in your blog post. :)

What do you do while waiting for a permanent residency? do you have a visa sponsored by your employer or do you go out and back in every 3 months? (I'm a non-US looking to come to the US to launch a business)

Well, I imagine it's some kind of app that you allow to post on your behalf. When you allow it, you know what it will post. If you really want to go the extra mile you could ask each new member to tick off which messages they don't feel comfortable sending out before authorizing the app. But I think that is unnecessary or release 2.0 Moreover if you relate back to the group, the person can see the larger scope and, maybe, join on the effort.

I'd be more concerned that you get hacked like buffer did a few days ago and you start sending bad tweets as the members :) but besides that I'd be willing to "donate" a few of my tweets to this do-good project

I myself often thought that If I went back I'd choose CS. It's a good almost all round discipline.

some of the "toys"/sculptures can be purchased. check the catalogue on link nº2 Since we know the educational value we are looking into making cheaper plastic versions for kids to handle. The artist himself wanted to them in plastic but didn't have the resources when he designed them in the 60-70's

awesome project! :) you are a good human being!

Maybe a solution to your banning problem could be to create a federated "FeelBetter" group of people who would be willing to automatically grant a few of their tweets. So you build an app that posts a FeelBetter message as one of the member of the group, in rotation. Kind of Seti@Home but for twitter tweets. The tweet would relate to the whole group something like: "@Recipient hug from me and the @FeelBetterBot community"

an answer to many of you :) There is no single discipline that is better or more needed than another. The debate Science+Technology vs Arts+Humanities is useless: just like your body needs all nutrients, your brain needs all types of inputs and stimuli. We have areas dedicated to math and others dedicated to language, both require the connection to logical reasoning. You should work them all out.

Moreover there is large evidence that Art (and humanities) can set you in the mindset of hacking. PG himself says that painting can teach many things about hacking [1] and I am living proof that Art can definitively teach you how to hack (and also be an entrepreneur): I received my first computer only when I was 19, but I had been hacking since I was 3 years old, through the art of Berrocal whose sculptures can be taken apart, transformed and combined, they are like 3d puzzles, tactile problems that need to be solved [2]. It has taught me practical tools, methodologies and ways of creatively find solutions that can be applied to both programming and to the day to day challenges of entrepreneurship.

There is actually a necessity and a current trend to connect Arts+Design+Humanities in the STEM education. it's called "from STEM to STEAM" [3] and it's backed by great figures in both art and computer science such as John Maeda

Don't despise arts+humanities, you'll be only limiting yourself. A good old poem can hack your brain! give it root! ;)

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html [2] http://berrocal.net [3] http://stemtosteam.org/

Yeah I thought so. Do you see any solutions to that? like putting a piece of hardware at the very end overriding or substituting the printer's control board, that would be able to decrypt the gcode and directly control the motors and extruders or the final electronics. I'm imagining this piece of hardware would work like the horrible hardware keys: the 3d file or gcode wouldn't be sent if it doesn't detect this hardware at the end of the process.

How hard do you think that would be? I imagine that for open source 3d printers that would kind of easy... There is a business in there if you solve this ;)

very cool! - is it just a monitoring app or can you actually launch printings like in octoprint? - Is there a way to encrypt the code sent so that the owner of the printer couldn't grab not even the G-code and reproduce the file once it's on his printer?

are you looking for present (taking) or past (taken) classes? :) my answer applies only to the past