Timothy B. Lee(@binarybits):This paragraph is a great example of why I find doomer reasoning unconvincing. "Solving incredibly hard problems" like Navier-Stokes and "managing massive engineering projects" are radically different! If you lump them together you are skipping over like 100 intermediate steps.

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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits

2026.09.15 14:42

This paragraph is a great example of why I find doomer reasoning unconvincing. "Solving incredibly hard problems" like Navier-Stokes and "managing massive engineering projects" are radically different! If you lump them together you are skipping over like 100 intermediate steps.