andrewthesmart

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   by andrewthesmart 13y ago

   What I say in the book is "chronic busyness destroys creativity, self-knowledge, emotional well-being, your ability to be social" and that I would argue is true. Deliberate practice to me means intense focus on one specific activi
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   by andrewthesmart 14y ago

   Well all physical systems are actually nonlinear; linearity is something we use when we can. I would call those types of nonlinear control toy problems compared with nonlinear systems like the climate or society. But agree that we just don'
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   by andrewthesmart 14y ago

   I was in this business for a while too and did some really cool stuff. But in the end this system transfers public money to enrich these companies; and the DOD basically pays these companies to learn how to develop technology that the compa
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   by andrewthesmart 14y ago

   Sure but the question is how much control is possible; people have been trying to control nonlinear systems since the 18th century without much luck. If society/economy/culture is a dynamical system that generates the power-law income distr
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   Is income inequality a massive earthquake waiting to happen? (artandscienceofdoingnothing.com)

   2 points by andrewthesmart 14y ago|4 comments
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   by andrewthesmart 14y ago

   I don't know how you feel about working for the military-industrial-tech-surveillance-state but companies or universities that get DARPA or IARPA money work on stuff like flying and/or self driving cars, autonomous systems etc (Lockheed, Ho