Comment by vkou
2 years ago
Steve Jobs received one - by which criteria, if not commercial (to other people) value?
It certainly wasn't for the warmth of his personality, his impeccable business ethics, or for his libre open-source contributions.
2 years ago
Steve Jobs received one - by which criteria, if not commercial (to other people) value?
It certainly wasn't for the warmth of his personality, his impeccable business ethics, or for his libre open-source contributions.
> by which criteria
Historic value.
And which category of important-enough-to-be-historic contributions has he made?
Take a moment to reflect on what you're doing right now.
You're turning a celebration of life for a _very_ recently departed figure into a pissing contest.
Extremely distasteful.
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«Contributions», debatable; «value», debatable; "impact", cannot be ignored.
It is probably best if we stick to Doug Lenat and postpone the meta to a more neutral occasion: Doug Lenat has just died.