"I'm glad the chicken brain is running around with its body cut-off"
To expand on the tease:
The pundits' (the chicken head: midwit and certified geniuses) panic could be diagnosed as counter-signalling. Those who have spent time in the trenches (the body; not your hypothetical automated bloggers doing market research with HN, not Karpathy who has ?illions in manager-cred) might be having the real attacks. Not constantly--- before bedtime.
And it is lower than 1%. Presumably you refer to those eudaimon-possessed scientist-engineers who are trying to
Routinely do things that have never been done before
Like this oneSorry-- my only excuse would be this half-baked thought
some distractions are more focussing than others, some long term projects are more distracting than half-baked ideas.
Even in your one-liner I quoted above "things" are carrying the day just by virtue of having no qualifier attached to it besides "new"Extending Koerner, a gram is worth more than a damn, but a damn can be worth more than a kilogram-- if you spread out the damn
What if Ron and you, _without_ refriending, worked out how easy it would be _to_ teach the rest of the 1% irascible (bc starving) artist-scientist-engineers how to overcome their ideological or genetic differences? Or ungrabbed uh non-opportunities that each has independently found and doubled down on fucking around with. You know, "fuck around and never finding out"
If you need 3 projects.. you don't need 3 projects. You might be Newton, but you're not a VC.