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I'm happy for a lot of the conversations. I'm interested in being really obscure to the main stream, because that does not they don't produce value for the people participating in them. So it actually doesn't matter whether those things catch on, so long as they actually make the computation more efficient. We need to pay you a royaltyr or anything. Let me try a different tack a on a disagreement. This one i think i feel a little stronger about. Although i like how i'm getting sucked into a romanticizing the dige of the world as a way of justifying my mindless a use of twitter in other places. But this is a, this is about, i would say

Writer and management consultant Venkatesh Rao talks about Waldenponding with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rao coined the term Waldenponding to describe various levels of retreating from technology akin to how Thoreau extolled the virtues of retreating from social contact and leading a quieter life at Walden Pond. Rao argues that the value of Waldenponding is overrated and that extreme Waldenponding is even somewhat immoral. Rao sees online intellectual life as a form of supercomputer, an intellectual ecosystem that produces new knowledge and intellectual discourse. He encourages all of us to contribute to that intellectual ecosystem even when it can mean losing credit for some of our ideas and potentially some of our uniqueness.