Dropped out of music school, launched a music education program, won a fellowship, cofounded a tech startup, all before taking a pregnant pause at Carnegie Mellon University in 2020, after reading Kai-Fu Lee, Stuart Russell, and Max Tegmark before quietly resigning.
The hauntological debt lingers.
Let's just say I understood why Geoffrey Hinton took a low flying aircraft to The University of Toronto around the Summer of Connectionism in 1987.
Somewhere along the way, I read the quadrivium, connected the dots, and realized why, when I interviewed at Microsoft in 1997, the director of program management in Windows Engineering at Building 27 had a PhD in Music from Eastman and the #1 Computer Scientist on earth in the last fifty years wrote The ART of computer programming. Ours is a very scientistic science!
I love to chat with different people who put community potential above commercial profit, like my clan lurking between MCG (where I saw The Bad Plus) and Get Hip Records next door in Pittsburgh.
Happiest scaling 2 guys-in-a-garage to pizza teams before brains need bandannas to find the path of least resistance in meatspace between explosion and implosion.
Why would you carry a toxic cocaine brick in your pocket if you already have Gelertner's mirror world between your ears? Caveat Emptor! You can't trust the masked man called big tech in the United States any further than you can throw your toxic cocaine brick!