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Ask HN: What would you work on if you couldn't fail?

7•rblion•13h ago
I've been sprinting 10-16 hours a day for almost a month now. I feel cool, calm, and collected though.

A lot is happening in the world and in our industry but I am doing all I can to be part of the cure, not the cancer.

This gives me peace of mind and helps me adapt regardless of if YC backs me or not. I'm moving to Palo Alto regardless, just being in the zip code alone will be enough at this point.

Comments

bell-cot•12h ago
Time travel.
sslayer•8h ago
Perpetual energy, Zero point energy, warp drive, gravity manipulation, teleportation
mikewarot•10h ago
I strongly believe the von Neumann architecture is a premature optimization. I want to bring bit level systolic array chips into reality and democratize access to petaflops.
chistev•8h ago
A personal blog that ends up becoming the biggest in the world.
throwaway843•7h ago
Ascension。
bitbasher•6h ago
Prevent cancer?
muzani•4h ago
Why cancer specifically? Why not say, diabetes or heart disease?
fuzzfactor•3h ago
I'd be working on the same old things, but with a whole lot better luck :)
hiAndrewQuinn•5m ago
Existential risk from superintelligent AI, naturally. Even if it turns out to not be a risk I'd sleep a lot easier at night with an ironclad mathematical proof of why exactly it isn't on the presses. And if it is a risk, it's almost certainly the most important thing anyone could work on right now.

I'm interpreting "can't fail" as "guaranteed to succeed one way or another", here.

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