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This has always seemed to be like the best aproach. You never want people that gravitate towards positions of authority to be in such positions. For positions t

This has always seemed to be like the best aproach. You never want people that gravitate towards positions of authority to be in such positions. For positions that require some degree of competence you have to settle with what you get, but what qualifications do politicians actually have?. Its not like we have the modern equivalent of the ancient chinese civil servant exam so that civil servants at least have some basic level of competency. Picking at random cannot possibly be any worse than what we have, it would reduce corruption and would create the incentive to invest more in the education of the general public.

matthewdgreen 3y ago
The problem isn’t just that psychopaths want to be in control, it’s that millions of people want psychopaths to be in control. It’s almost as though there’s a gene for self-destructiveness and about half the population has it.
- joshspankit 3y ago
  What are your citations?
  - fithisux 3y ago
    What are your citations for the sunrise and sunset?
    - joshspankit 3y ago
      - Herman, J. R. "The response of stratospheric constituents to a solar eclipse, sunrise, and sunset." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 84.C7 (1979): 3701-3710. - Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina. "Roman towns oriented to sunrise and sunset on solstices." Available at SSRN 2777118 (2016). - Woolf, Harold M. On the computation of solar elevation angles and the determination of sunrise and sunset times. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968. - Teets, Donald A. "Predicting sunrise and sunset times." The College Mathematics Journal 34.4 (2003): 317-321. - Greenwood, Margaret Stautberg. "Using rotation matrices to calculate the locations of sunrise and sunset, the hours of daylight, observed path of the Sun, and its elevation angle for any latitude." American Journal of Physics 91.7 (2023): 519-519. - Muheim, Rachel, Susanne Åkesson, and John B. Phillips. "Magnetic compass of migratory Savannah sparrows is calibrated by skylight polarization at sunrise and sunset." Journal of Ornithology 148 (2007): 485-494. - Verhulst, Tobias GW, and Stanimir M. Stankov. "Height-dependent sunrise and sunset: Effects and implications of the varying times of occurrence for local ionospheric processes and modelling." Advances in space research 60.8 (2017): 1797-1806.
- fithisux 3y ago
  Very very true.

matthewdgreen 3y ago

The problem isn’t just that psychopaths want to be in control, it’s that millions of people want psychopaths to be in control. It’s almost as though there’s a gene for self-destructiveness and about half the population has it.

joshspankit 3y ago
What are your citations?
- fithisux 3y ago
  What are your citations for the sunrise and sunset?
  - joshspankit 3y ago
    - Herman, J. R. "The response of stratospheric constituents to a solar eclipse, sunrise, and sunset." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 84.C7 (1979): 3701-3710. - Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina. "Roman towns oriented to sunrise and sunset on solstices." Available at SSRN 2777118 (2016). - Woolf, Harold M. On the computation of solar elevation angles and the determination of sunrise and sunset times. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968. - Teets, Donald A. "Predicting sunrise and sunset times." The College Mathematics Journal 34.4 (2003): 317-321. - Greenwood, Margaret Stautberg. "Using rotation matrices to calculate the locations of sunrise and sunset, the hours of daylight, observed path of the Sun, and its elevation angle for any latitude." American Journal of Physics 91.7 (2023): 519-519. - Muheim, Rachel, Susanne Åkesson, and John B. Phillips. "Magnetic compass of migratory Savannah sparrows is calibrated by skylight polarization at sunrise and sunset." Journal of Ornithology 148 (2007): 485-494. - Verhulst, Tobias GW, and Stanimir M. Stankov. "Height-dependent sunrise and sunset: Effects and implications of the varying times of occurrence for local ionospheric processes and modelling." Advances in space research 60.8 (2017): 1797-1806.
fithisux 3y ago
Very very true.