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Are you living an AND life or an OR life?
- CoastalCoder 3y agoI'm married with kids, so my life is more of a 3SAT situation.
- foooobaba 3y agoYou’re life is [np]complete :)
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- beebmam 3y agoI feel like this article should replace OR with XOR. It's unfortunate English doesn't have a commonly used word for XOR. Maybe we should start saying xor as though it is a normal English word, pronounced "zor"?
- samirillian 3y agoI've thought the same thing, haha. I was thinking about going the other way though, with dor for and/or and or for xor. We already have doff and don, which for some reason seem like similar constructions.
- sshine 3y agoYes, when reading the headline, I thought "the moral is: pick (inclusive) OR!". Which in this article is called "AND" (which logically requires both, rather than allows both).
- kayodelycaon 3y agoEnglish determines exclusive OR, inclusive OR, and AND using context. This kind of ambiguity really drives us logical people nuts. :)
- tomxor 3y agoThanks. I feel less alone now :)
- Shrezzing 3y agoWe do the same with "up to" too. I have no idea how non-native speakers learn the English language. > Count up to 20 Is a prompt to count up to, and include, twenty. > Describe the events up to WWII Is a prompt to describe the events leading up to WWII, but leave out the war itself.
- adrianmsmith 3y agoI'm not sure if I agree with that. > Describe the events up to WWII For me that sounds like you would include WWII, just like if you counted up to 20. > Describe the events leading up to WWII Then I would agree, that would be "explain the set of events on which WWII depended" so that would include all prior events which are relevant to WWII, without including WWII itself, but also missing out any events not relevant to WWII, so not e.g. "OK so the ice age was before WWII, so let's start there". (Native English speaker, from UK).
- kayodelycaon 3y agoIn my experience, spoken English is relatively fault tolerant, which probably makes speaking it less challenging than it first appears. To become proficient, you slowly learn the rules. Not sure how this compares to other languages. I’ve only observed other people learning the language. As a typical American, I only speak American English. If you mentioned the boot of a car, I’d probably ask if you meant the tires. ;)
- qzw 3y agoI think the difference in this case is that we naturally parenthesize the sentences differently: (Count up) to 20. and Describe the events (up to) WWII. Because "count up" and "count down" have precedence over "up to" in the linguistic order of operations, so to speak. There's of course no "describe up" or "events up", so "up to" has precedence in the second case.
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- revolvingocelot 3y agoI suggest "ecks-or". This developed in university CS labs, as a result of exchanges like "OK are we going to finish the shell project tonight or shall I just slam my head into the desk until I fall unconscious?" "Yes"
- rob74 3y agoYeah, but the "everyday meaning" of AND is different too. Everyday meaning: you can have A and also B, but you don't have to; boolean logic: you have to have A and B, otherwise you don't have anything.
- yathern 3y agoI think "Either" is what makes an OR a XOR. "You can go with either red or green"
- phoe-krk 3y agoThere is a finite number of hours in a day and a finite number of possibilities to combine different activities during these hours. Even with best of intentions and very decent techniques, it's impossible to have a XOR life with too many things at once without getting exhausted and burned out and getting a temporarily NOT life as a result.
- moffkalast 3y agoNAND life is where it's at.
- tomrod 3y ago> it's impossible to have a XOR life We tend to invest too much time into activities when we limit ourselves. You can work out, bone up your knowledge, eat healthy, work efficiently, and have time for recreation and a family. It take investing time into planning, which feels wasteful when you're overwhelmed. And it might mean you timebox certain activities to limit burning the ocean.
- phoe-krk 3y agoWhat do you mean by "limit ourselves" in this context? Also, do you have any resources on the sort of planning that you mention?
- sshine 3y agoThis reminds me of A Cyborg Manifesto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto Instead of identifying yourself in bounded categories, characterise yourself by affinity. Haraway calls for a revision of the concept of gender, moving away from Western patriarchal essentialism and toward "the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender," stating that "Cyborgs might consider more seriously the partial, fluid, sometimes aspect of sex and sexual embodiment. Gender might not be global identity after all, even if it has profound historical breadth and depth."
- EatingWithForks 3y agoWould love gender-by-affinity rather than gender-by-bimodal-physical-characteristics. It'd be neat to try on having boobs, especially if it's e.g. temporary to feed my child or something, and still do and be seen with all the guy characteristics I currently identify as.
- ben_w 3y agoSurely someone's already selling those on Amazon? In the form of wearable milk bottles, but still, surely? Edit: Found it: https://www.amazon.com/Milker-Now-Men-Can-Breastfeed/dp/B00BJLSD3U https://www.amazon.com/Milker-Now-Men-Can-Breastfeed/dp/B00B...
- ye-olde-sysrq 3y agoI wonder how improving technology will affect perceptions of of these concepts. Right now, transitioning genders physically is hard, for many reasons, and quality of outcomes is dependent on many factors. What if you could just pop into a genetic resculpting pod and it could literally physically edit you to be biologically the other gender? What if it was fast and easy enough that someone could do it habitually during a day or week? Be one gender at work and one gender while at home? I suspect that enough generations will pass that the gradual decoupling of physical biology from our sense of identity will make this a less interesting smooth change with no big-bang, but I'd be kind of interested in reading a short story exploring what our world would look like if this star-trek-tier sophisticated body-modding was invented tomorrow.
- tuatoru 3y agoBinary thinking doesn't lead to a good life. Continua.
- rezz 3y agoYou can do anything but you can’t do everything (well).
- uudecoded 3y agoWhat if I want to live an AND life AND an OR life? This post finds reasonable fault with false dichotomies as "OR life" then reifies the structure of false dichotomy in the title and proposition as positivist thinking. I think the constructive equivalent is "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade". Or at least be mindful of the false binary trap, even in your personal life...
- giantg2 3y agoLike typical self-help blogs, the article is oversimplified and does not provide a balanced analysis of the ideas presented. Disappointing really.
- parpfish 3y agoDeMorgan's law says there's no difference between AND-life and OR-life if you throw in some negations
- tomrod 3y agoYou. I like you. Follows my own thought process. Few people would jump immediately to the axiomatic foundations of set theory.
- scyzoryk_xyz 3y agoI’m definitely living a for loop and package.json life.
- xeromal 3y agoAnytime I open an article and it has that art style, I know it's not for me.
- jrace 3y agoI opened the article after I read you comment, and agree - something about that style is off-putting.
- xwowsersx 3y agoAny article that features art in the style of that header image? Why exactly? That seems like an unnecessarily uncompromising attitude, no? I get that we all have our own heuristics and signals we rely on, but maybe the author here just didn't think through what image to use very deeply at all and just threw something on there last second before clicking to publish? Dismissing the entire post out of hand just based on that seems a bit rash.
- xeromal 3y agoIt's definitely irrational on my part, but as you said, it's one of the heuristics I base spending my time on. If a friend or someone I respect tells me otherwise, I'll read it though.
- LesZedCB 3y agoCorporate Memphis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis though I've also heard it called Alegria, and I'm not sure the exact difference. edit: Alegria was Facebook's style specifically, Linus Boman has a great video which briefly discussed its place in history of clip art: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLlpxE6AYM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLlpxE6AYM
- xeromal 3y agoWow! This is exactly what I was talking about. Didn't know it had a name!
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- swader999 3y agoMy life is a mix of switch, if then else, many nested blocks, unconventional formatting and even a couple of goto statements.
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- jmathai 3y agoI landed on a "flexible OR" life. I've found that focusing on fewer things (OR) without being dogmatic (eating healthy can mean cake sometimes) brings me a lot more satisfaction than focusing on many things and not enjoying any of them fully.
- jonnycomputer 3y agoAND/OR, a techie in the Digital Circus, fell in love with a frankie, Angel Lips. Funny, he never seemed to have met up with the techno witches Onoffon and Offonoff.
- pphysch 3y agoIt's quite silly in hindsight how we invent false choices (I am A XOR B) to "escape" the daily responsibility of real decisions, i.e. whether to spend this moment working on A or B.
- amelius 3y agoOr are you living a FOMO life?
- 1970-01-01 3y agoI'm living the ternary life. Yes. No. Time to do something else entirely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-valued_logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-valued_logic
- xianshou 3y agoShocked no one has suggested the XNOR life yet. What could be more expressive of the hell-yes-or-no mentality?
- aschearer 3y agoBinary thinking limits. Control is an illusion or at best minimal. You are not your emotions. There are seasons in life. Let the river carry you to the ocean. It's up to you how that process feels.
- Night_Thastus 3y agoI don't get the "control is an illusion" part. Maybe in some cosmic/determinism sense, but that wouldn't be very useful for day-to-day.
- aschearer 3y agoUltimately it's an article of faith. A leap. If it helps, here's a metaphor: you're in a vessel in the middle of a vast, swift river. You have a paddle. Do you have control? Yes. Can you control the outcome? No. More pithily, "Man plans, and God laughs."
- JohnFen 3y agoI view it as a variant of the basic lesson the parable "The Oak and the Reed" presents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oak_and_the_Reed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oak_and_the_Reed
- NKosmatos 3y agoCame here to see a reference to Karnaugh maps :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map Returning on topic, like others have stated, some times you need to be an OR, others an AND, others a NOT and some others combinations of all.