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And gain experience
by sethev 7mo ago
And gain experience
- simmerup 7mo agoBut dude was 86, how many people in nursing homes would you trust to run a country?
- dotancohen 7mo agoProbably one in a thousand. But as one whom the Ayatollah has sworn to eliminate, I can still state that man was sharp and brilliant and extremely well spoken. His worldview was internally consistent. He had vision and experience and knew how to motivate people. He was a one in ten million leader. I give him that praise and more, even recognising that his stated mission was to exterminate myself and my children.
- maybelsyrup 7mo ago> But as one whom the Ayatollah has sworn to eliminate What does this mean — did you stick him with the bill at all restaurant or something?
- justsomehnguy 7mo agoEven If you don't recognize the last name you can just click on the user info and make 2 + 2.
- EtienneDeLyon 7mo agoHe's doing what's called "Hasbara". Regular people call it "lying".
- _DeadFred_ 7mo agoI love this basically pointing out that racists call it "Hasbara" and regular people call it "lying". Don't agree it applies in this situation, but it's nice to see someone break down regular people don't give a special jewish name to something that already has a common name/definition, and that the common name better communicates the intended concept so the purpose of using the word is to convey something different than basic understanding.
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- dotancohen 7mo agoPlease quote which part of my comment you feel is a lie.
- justsomehnguy 7mo agoIt's.. an amusing exchange, especially as a response to the actual aknowledgement of the other party - the thing which people there nor have nor want.
- somenameforme 7mo agoIn every field where competence can be objectively measured, experience does not endlessly correlate with competence. There's always a growth phase but then there's a bell curve of age vs competence, that reaches a peak and then there's a constant decline from there. So for instance chess is primarily a mental game, yet the decline comes as early as one's mid thirties for world class players. I'm fully willing to accept that for a field where scenarios are fuzzier and intuition more important, it may well be that peak on the bell curve comes somewhat later. But I think it's essentially inconceivable that one is near, or even remotely near, their peak, in their 80s, in anything.
- sethev 7mo ago>There's always a growth phase but then there's a bell curve of age vs competence A bell curve tracks the distribution of a single random variable. You're mixing statistical metaphors.
- acdha 7mo agoThat’s true, but it’s not always good—Americans have stark examples of the risks of octogenarian leaders whose experience leads them astray by discounting how much the world has changed since they were young. I think of mental faculties and experience as two separate overlapping curves where there’s a sweet spot in the middle where both are high but either one being low can become a big problem. They also just don’t have the same energy they used to so even if they have a good idea they’ll be less effective at motivating people to embrace it, and the younger people behind them are going to be acting with more thought to succession politics.
- foldr 7mo agoBiden's surely a poster child for the value of experience and connections in the Presidency. Whatever you think of him (and I would certainly agree that he should never have considered a second term), he was quite successful in furthering his agenda while in office.
- acdha 7mo agoYes, I agree that he used his experience well for many things (and had competent staff he could trust to get things done) but I will say he made a huge mistake continuing to back Israel's actions in Gaza to an extent which I don't think someone too young to remember the Six Days War would have done. I think you could also make a solid argument that earlier in his career he probably would have had more energy to put into getting a few of the close votes in Congress over the line.
- leonvoss 7mo agoAnd as we can see with Biden and Trump, 86 is past the the optimal compromise between experience and cognition.