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machine learning engineer at Unity (past data science at Blizzard & AI PhD from Georgia Tech) all tweets my own
Dec 10, 2018 12 tweets 2 min read
read @tylercowen's Stubborn Attachments.
since many have already written an overview of one sort or another, i'll mostly focus on what i personally got from it, including some conundrums in the spirit of "a reader who wants Tyler to go further" 1) longterm-ism can be founded on many grounds, ranging from compounding economic growth to physics to intuitions about how to treat future generations. this felt *very* natural to me, and held stronger ground than typical moral philosophy arguments grounded in toy worlds