nerds

The problem in the Valley is that the dominant culture is now set by the people who moved West to take advantage of nerds and their poor negotiating skills.

Since a specialized area (like Melbourne, FL doing low-level stuff) doesn't have too many nerds outside that specialty, the cost of living stays low.

Intellectually, we're also PL nerds (mostly Lisp and Haskell/ML), so if that's your cup of tea you'll be right at home!

If I see protests in the street and there are more participants than just nerds, than I'll believe change is possible.

It'll be The Revenge of the Nerds all over again.

It's a lovely idea, as middle age encroaches on me I long for the rapture of the nerds, but it's just a fairy tale.

I normally rely on Hanlon's razor and assume this is the work of a bunch of short-sighted nerds that are only looking at the fun-and-shiny features.

We're all nerds, here, so I understand the emphasis on mathematical logic, but you owe it to yourself to be familiar with traditional Aristotelian logic, as well.

It seems like Eliezer has convinced a ton of nerds (I hate the word but let's roll with it) that they can succeed in writing fiction by applying this one weird trick.

As for the few nerds that notice, they can probably be shut up with an obscure option to disable (most of?) the data collection; the number of people that even know the option exists will be insignificant.

To a Harvard MBA, that we programmers earn six figures is prima facie evidence of a worker shortage, since there's no way that ugly nerds should be earning that kind of money for typing into a computer.

> It seems like Eliezer has convinced a ton of nerds (I hate the word but let's roll with it) that they can succeed in writing fiction by applying this one weird trick.

Also my perception is not that development teams are necessarily "dominated" by nerds.

This sounds very much like the central thesis of "When Nerds Collide".

We have openings we can't fill because we're specifically looking for "nerds" (those who actually do live, eat and breathe code).

"When Nerds Collide" is a great piece of exposition but I doubt it's the source of the idea.

Nerds think they're a good idea because they'll sort out all the annoying grey areas in social human interaction.