Thanks for explanation. Now my model is that you consider carbon nanotubes very important technology for increasing computational power (more than many other hardware-related technologies), so they are also a very important component in calculating Singularity timeline. Makes sense, though I lack the knowledge necessary to discuss it.
I posted the most relevant abstract. If they spent some fairly large time writing that, why should I assume I can do better?
Because they were writing for a different audience—for people who already know a lot of context.
Now it’s your choice whether you want to discuss with an average LessWronger, in which case you should provide more content, or you want to discuss only with people who are experts in some area, which is completely legitimate, but perhaps you should state it more explicitly.
It is indeed kind of mean that I ask how this piece fits into everyone’s puzzle without disclosing my puzzle, but I do worry about security and that sort of thing and this was a good experiment on how people would respond
That’s good. I was hoping you will not get the impression that we are somehow biased against discussing singularity or carbon. :D
I think it tends to be most useful to do things that support multiple different plans, so I had a lot of motives for putting this up here. I don’t have a lot of time, so that’s how I try to roll anyway...
Here is what my motivations were :
In general play with the site—I did a little bit of work on it in the summer of 2010 and I was talking about making a contribution again, so I wanted to play with the interface and understand the code better.
I enjoyed my time at singinst, but was one of the rare people that had never read lesswrong when I arrived there (having found the post on hacker news) so it was an effort to reach out to the community
I deliberately didn’t write much about a topic that I have reason to believe should be interesting to this community, so it was a good level set for the community’s tech level, curiosity and so forth. Definitely more open to stuff than the average forum, but was surprised, would have thought people would be all over this as a weird idea.
definitely not just looking for expert opinions, I do think CNTs are very important and I want to encourage you and everyone else to let your imagination run wild a bit and say what you think, if it’s too dangerous to discuss fine, but I doubt most think that…
for experts that want to set me straight or point out some obvious reason these techs are not useful, let me know but since we are already using CNTs to replace thermal paste for heat sinks so can we do a full chip etc...
Thanks for explanation. Now my model is that you consider carbon nanotubes very important technology for increasing computational power (more than many other hardware-related technologies), so they are also a very important component in calculating Singularity timeline. Makes sense, though I lack the knowledge necessary to discuss it.
Because they were writing for a different audience—for people who already know a lot of context.
Now it’s your choice whether you want to discuss with an average LessWronger, in which case you should provide more content, or you want to discuss only with people who are experts in some area, which is completely legitimate, but perhaps you should state it more explicitly.
That’s good. I was hoping you will not get the impression that we are somehow biased against discussing singularity or carbon. :D
I think it tends to be most useful to do things that support multiple different plans, so I had a lot of motives for putting this up here. I don’t have a lot of time, so that’s how I try to roll anyway...
Here is what my motivations were :
In general play with the site—I did a little bit of work on it in the summer of 2010 and I was talking about making a contribution again, so I wanted to play with the interface and understand the code better.
I enjoyed my time at singinst, but was one of the rare people that had never read lesswrong when I arrived there (having found the post on hacker news) so it was an effort to reach out to the community
I deliberately didn’t write much about a topic that I have reason to believe should be interesting to this community, so it was a good level set for the community’s tech level, curiosity and so forth. Definitely more open to stuff than the average forum, but was surprised, would have thought people would be all over this as a weird idea.
definitely not just looking for expert opinions, I do think CNTs are very important and I want to encourage you and everyone else to let your imagination run wild a bit and say what you think, if it’s too dangerous to discuss fine, but I doubt most think that…
for experts that want to set me straight or point out some obvious reason these techs are not useful, let me know but since we are already using CNTs to replace thermal paste for heat sinks so can we do a full chip etc...