Technologists split into 18-month thinkers and 30-70-year thinkers, says dev
fkasummer · x · 2026-11-01
The author observes that technologist friends tend to operate on either an 18-month timescale or a 30-50-70-year timescale. Both groups think deeply about life, death, and meaning, but for very different reasons — and the long-horizon group is orders of magnitude smaller.
More from AGI Musings
- Prediction: Next year is the year of AI-run autonomous online businesses — curious_vii · 2026-11-01
- Bindu Reddy: If OpenAI Solves a P vs NP-Level Problem, It Could Be a $10T Company — bindureddy · 2026-11-01
- Senior engineer: 'popularity is the weights of an LLM' — half of 600 engineering scars can't be baked into models — RandalSchwartz · 2026-11-01
- Could superintelligence park Mars in Earth's orbit instead of us flying there? — r0ck3t23 · 2026-11-01
- DIY UBI math with real data: about $2,000 per person after 30 years, not a living wage — edmrunmachine · 2026-11-01
- Reddit suffers worst day since IPO, stock plunges 29% as CEO blames Google AI Mode for traffic loss — oran_ge · 2026-11-01