Comments on: The story so far… http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2007/05/14/the-story-so-far/ Chemically-enhanced neural rewiring, on a semi-regular basis... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:26:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Phoinix http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2007/05/14/the-story-so-far/#comment-321861 Phoinix Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2007/05/14/the-story-so-far/#comment-321861 Yeah, I got the "Too smart to do..." line from my adviser. Then I dropped out of school a semester away from four degrees to become an artist. No, I hadn't actually taken an art class up until then. But it's not actually compulsory as it turns out. Most of it is on-the-job training anyway. Anyway, best decision ever (I wish I'd done that *prior* to incurring the 35k in school debt though). Although, only myself and my partner hold that opinion. Everyone else is all "throwing away your potential" and "why don't you keep going and graduate to working 20 hour days right through your midlife crisis like the rest of us." The way I see it, I was efficient and booked my midlife crisis early, so I could enjoy it with all of my faculties intact. Good luck with the killer robots - A future with killer robots is a colorful one. Mainly red. Yeah, I got the “Too smart to do…” line from my adviser. Then I dropped out of school a semester away from four degrees to become an artist. No, I hadn’t actually taken an art class up until then. But it’s not actually compulsory as it turns out. Most of it is on-the-job training anyway.

Anyway, best decision ever (I wish I’d done that *prior* to incurring the 35k in school debt though). Although, only myself and my partner hold that opinion. Everyone else is all “throwing away your potential” and “why don’t you keep going and graduate to working 20 hour days right through your midlife crisis like the rest of us.” The way I see it, I was efficient and booked my midlife crisis early, so I could enjoy it with all of my faculties intact.

Good luck with the killer robots - A future with killer robots is a colorful one. Mainly red.

]]> By: Dave http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2007/05/14/the-story-so-far/#comment-238342 Dave Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2007/05/14/the-story-so-far/#comment-238342 thanks felix: nah, didn't really opt for the hyper-caffeinated option this time around. We'll see how that worked. j-ster: didn't have much luck building that AI yet. might to the zen thing anyway and leave it to somebody else to ensure worldwide destruction by a new breed of super-intelligent killer droids. Even world-domination gets me bored these days. thanks felix: nah, didn’t really opt for the hyper-caffeinated option this time around. We’ll see how that worked.

j-ster: didn’t have much luck building that AI yet. might to the zen thing anyway and leave it to somebody else to ensure worldwide destruction by a new breed of super-intelligent killer droids. Even world-domination gets me bored these days.

]]> By: j-ster http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2007/05/14/the-story-so-far/#comment-236419 j-ster Sat, 30 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2007/05/14/the-story-so-far/#comment-236419 Cmon! Build that AI this evening and get it to do all your work for you while you do the social butterfly thing on the weekends in Tokyo and the Zen thing on the weekdays up in the mountains. Cmon! Build that AI this evening and get it to do all your work for you while you do the social butterfly thing on the weekends in Tokyo and the Zen thing on the weekdays up in the mountains.

]]> By: felix http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2007/05/14/the-story-so-far/#comment-236240 felix Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2007/05/14/the-story-so-far/#comment-236240 Congrats on your NII internship! Good luck on your exams. Keep us posted with your hyper-caffeinated when you need a break from higher-level math and logic. Congrats on your NII internship! Good luck on your exams. Keep us posted with your hyper-caffeinated when you need a break from higher-level math and logic.

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