| ▲ | moralestapia 3 hours ago |
| Excerpt from one of the related emails (written by JE): "great proposal„ however, it needs to be more around deception alice -bob. communication. virus
hacking, battle between defense and infiltration.. computation is already looked at in various
fields. camoflauge , mimickry, signal processing, and its non random nature, misinformation. ( the
anti- truth - but right answer for the moment ).. computation does not involve defending against
interception, a key area for biological systems, if a predator breaks the code, it usually can
accumulate its preys free energy at a discount . self deception, ( necessary to prevent accidental
disclosure of inate algorithms. WE need more hackers , also interested in biological hacking ,
security, etc." Damn! I once worked with a guy that was exactly like this. Not just writing but his style of speech irl was like that, incoherent loosely bound ideas around one topic. Ironically, the harder he tried to appear smart the more idiotic were the things that spewed out of his mouth. We were working with GPUs, trying to find ways to optimize GPU code, he called the team for an informal meeting and told us dead serious, "Why can't you just like, ..., remove the GPUs from the server, then crack them open, turn them outside out and put them back in to see if they perform better". :O I don't know if this has a name, I just thought the guy had schizophrenia. So glad I moved on from that place. |
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| ▲ | rawgabbit 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Pseudo-intellectual aka bullshitter.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pseudo-intellectu... computation does not involve defending against interception, a key area for biological systems,. He is confused about software/programming/hacking. Hacking absolutely involves intercepting messages e.g., man in the middle attack. I have no idea what he thinks biological systems is; does he think that bacteria/viruses intercept chemical messages that our brain sends to different organs in our body? if a predator breaks the code, it usually can accumulate its preys free energy at a discount. Free energy -- yuck -- that is what happens when scientists give a terrible name to "usable work" or "usable energy". Free energy is about the usable work you can get out of a e.g., coal powered steam engine. He is mixing physics/thermodynamics with biology. |
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| ▲ | lifestyleguru 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My brain farts are more cohesive, yet I'm never drunk enough while writing them down to use spaces before punctuation or after a bracket. |
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| ▲ | EFreethought 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| When he was alive a lot of people said Epstein was really smart. But I have read some of his emails, and all of the ones I have seen are full of spelling, punctuation, grammar and capitalization errors. I would not gotten out of sixth grade if I wrote like that. |
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| ▲ | lebca 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I used to know someone wealthy whose continued wealth relied on working with local and state governments. This person's public correspondence in lawsuits and with local government officials was purposefully littered with spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization errors. When I asked them about it, their response was that it was on purpose so that they seemed less smart and thus less threatening, with the hope that they would get more favorable rulings and contracts by not seeming like "one of the big entities." I'm not asking you to believe me on this, but sharing it more as an anecdote of: something on the surface is sometimes not the reality of what's underneath. | | |
| ▲ | ddq an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | In addition, it broadcasts that the sender is too busy with all their important work to spend time refining and proofreading, that you're getting their raw, unfiltered thoughts directly from them, not through an assistant, and that their time is more valuable than yours so the burden is on you to parse their stream of consciousness jumble for precious nuggets of their exclusive wisdom. The semiotics make sense, plus it's just easier and faster. | |
| ▲ | PlunderBunny 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I remember being told that many of the spelling/grammar mistakes in (English) menus for ethnic restaurants were deliberate to make the (English native speaking) customers feel superior. (Also not saying I believe this at all, just relating an anecdote). |
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| ▲ | palmotea 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > But I have read some of his emails, and all of the ones I have seen are full of spelling, punctuation, grammar and capitalization errors. I would not gotten out of sixth grade if I wrote like that. I kinda assumed that was (at least partly) a "flex," basically doing something dumb to show you're such hot stuff you can get away with it. It's like Sam Altman writing in lowercase all the time. | | | |
| ▲ | andrewflnr an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I've found that problem solving intelligence and language skills are not that strongly correlated. He clearly had some kind of skill to keep his operation running, even before you consider the more cynical explanations in the other replies. | |
| ▲ | jalapenoi an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | somehow he was allowed to teach college classes without a degree, doors just open like that when you’re part of the tribe of pedophiles | |
| ▲ | throwjefferey 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | He was probably more impressive in-person. | |
| ▲ | razingeden 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I like using “astute businessman” as a backhanded compliment sometimes. Usually meaning the revenues and results are there .. although everything about their personal or professional ethos disgusts me. Eh. From time to time you’ll have that one brilliant but grossly tangential asset on a team who leaves you wondering if they’re manic or cracked out from the weekend. Who’s in infrastructure and hasn’t sent a few sleep-deprived and cringey status updates out at 6am :D Okay okay okay fine, it’s an internet comment section I don’t have to be PC. I think this one’s coke. | |
| ▲ | moralestapia 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think that ... given one specific topic, few people understand it while the vast majority is completely oblivious to its workings. So they then hear someone who speaks like that, with a fast cadence and Andrew Tate's "Confidence" TM, and are inclined to think "yeah, the guy looks like he knows what he's talking about". But for people who have minimal knowledge about the thing, it's evident that said person is just stupid. |
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| ▲ | dnautics 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| i don't think its schizophrenia? i mean working in tech you haven't run into that CTO or vp eng who snowjobs the c-suite with a word salad of hot button technical terms that don't quite add up? hell ive even interviewed developer candidates for positions who are like this. |
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