Max Novendstern links Thiel optimism to Ethereum and OpenAI
Max Novendstern posted an observation connecting Peter Thiel’s indefinite optimism framework to Vitalik Buterin’s decision to embed a virtual machine on Ethereum and OpenAI’s choice to scale transformer models. The post presented both as examples of advancing without outcome certainty. Roon reposted the thread. Beff quote-tweeted the material and extended the discussion to a hardware proposal that would use stochastic physics in physical devices to run probabilistic algorithms, citing the Extropic project.
#839Beff (e/acc)@BEFFJEZOS"maybe we could use the stochastic physics of hardware to run probabilistic algorithms" indefinite optimism behind @extropic
Max Novendstern@mnovendsternThiel apparently liked to say that “indefinite optimism” was the worse of all quadrants. But that surely was the spirit Vitalik was in when he said, “maybe we stick a Virtual Machine onchain,” or OpenAI was in when they said, “maybe we crank transformers to the max.” Demanding determinateness was the midwit trap that exited you from the timeline.
