alt Hacker NewsThere's ZERO room for innovation in the projects suggested.
Wanna do some creative thinking? Read some books, learn how normal people think. Explore latest datasets. That's where the meat is. 98% of what you read online has been written by super uncreative(boring) people. They have no imagination whatsoever, IQ is well statistically speaking not too flattering.
Internet is ran by the bottom. It's slop by the bottom, for the bottom. So you need to hang out with creative people.
Tech people write the most boring blog posts because it's aimed at getting hired. Nothing of substance is shared. That's why gwern stands out like a sore thumb. The majority of human beings are incapable of creative thought.
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> There's ZERO room for innovation in the projects suggested.
I do not agree. Improved variants and innovation would be possible with operating systems, GUI, programming languages, etc. It would also be possible that something will be made better for one purpose because others are not as good for some purposes, but it is not the only way to do, though.
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Novelty is not the only value. Slop comes from your attitude: people like you who think that things must be new to be worth something
You learn how to do these things, then innove in other projects. I don't see these two concepts contradictory.