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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Feel like the system should be made of layers. A rational one that follows lanes and rules and such but also a more reptilian backup system that self-preserves. The latter can't be used all the time because of danger to others but it&#
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
The libertarian attitude only works if you assume everyone is equal. Children are not. And because access to knowledge and wisdom (which includes when and how to seek out knowledge, usually passed on by educated parents.) huge portions of p
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
There is a dangerous moral hazard where the people who take out the debt aren't the ones to pay it back though. I've seen quite a few people jump from company to company using roundabout ways of creating success that are actually
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
A gun isn't fair in a knife fight. Certain technologies allow bullying. I think math is one such technology. Non intuitiveness of exponential growth is one that many debtors don't understand. A sense of knowing how society/mo
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
If self driving cars are limited to speeds that allow them to stop within their lidar max range is that too slow? Humans don't have the pinpoint accuracy of lidar but our visual algorithms are very flexible and robust and also have ver
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Yea, Facebook had admitted to missing mobile and the WhatsApp purchase was driven very much by the knowledge that the for platform was losing streak.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Having gone to school in China I think that the Chinese people not being creative is incorrect. The public US education system is just worse all around. However there are pockets of extremely high quality that exist but aren't indicati
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Interestingly enough ancient Chinese texts like the Tao Te Ching emphasize that the best ruler is one who doesn't seem to exist. Similarly with free markets and letting people do there thing in peace an invisible quality emerges. The E
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
China historically becomes powerful then brittle then falls apart then unified to become powerful then brittle then falls apart and on and on.... The inefficiency of democracy is supposed to combat the brittleness and power-corrupts-ness of
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
6 years is really long for many fields e.g. software. It may be really short for cars though, especially if you are up against incumbents. The massive demand probably doesn't help either. It's not like it's intentional... It&
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think this is emergent behavior rather than something with a malicious source. Profit seeking is one reason but it could also be to remain competitive. There are so many people in China and India (and allover the world but these 2 have th
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Any order of magnitude change fundamentally changes the problem. Computers are not just fast calculators. Scaling to a millions users is different than 100k. I'd say that power corrupts even the most well intentioned and that history h
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Whatever it is you should accept that it is. If you immediately take the moral high ground and deny that what is IS you contribute to the problem of robbing people of their voice by deeming their thoughts or their way of thinking as wrong.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Yep. Two former world powers each making up 20% of the world , India and China, are grouped together as "Asian" in the US
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
There's an interesting subculture around the concept of "Quality" which was popularized by Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. If Quality is something intrinsic to the observer/universe pair, learning is maximiz
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
In a way, monopolies are good like elevator limits are good. It's not the support of the elevator that's the problem but the discomfort of people being crammed into the same space. When the same market can suddenly be open to anyo
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
The tone of article also implies (and I think is true) that the west views/viewed China from a position of moral authority. Like a parent being disappointed in a kid because it should know better. Culturally this leads to to the idea o
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
A similar issue for companies and even communities is not total power but focused power where value can be extracted. Increasing total power is scalable but increasing it in a chosen direction is not. A free market for example is "effi
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
In many primitive cultures certain chemicals were used. "modern" society has many subcultures that still continue to do so however. Eg https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geomet...
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Unfortunately the easiest way seems to be either create a monoculture or adopt the overly-political but more robust model.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think because tech is well off compared to other industries, tech workers delay a certain type of adulthood maturity. This isn't functioning in society maturity but the maturity of finding and knowing your place. To the young everyon
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
You should look more into the history of the US as well as international opinions. The US isn't a paragon of virtue, it is only able to sell its own narrative of events because of its economic and cultural weight. Even the belief that
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Once Quality is defined it no longer is Quality. Instead it opens the way for gatekeepers to stand guard around their moat and claim Quality eventually corrupting the original definition. To try and hold onto that which cannot be held onto
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Here's my pop-culture theory: 1/ US is left relatively unscathed after WW2 becoming the remaining superpower. 2/Unearned power without the corresponding sense of responsibility led to unsoohosticated methods of locking in int
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think creativity is closely related to critical thinking or more specifically the courage to think for yourself. Often this puts you at a disadvantage because it's so much easier to consume and regurgitate estaished knowledge. Howeve
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think this means conventional intelligence. If lots of people think you are smart it is only possible if they all have the same internal definition of smart which must be the lowest common denominator. Creativity and creative intelligence
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think it's like this: Time stands still for the photon and is super slow for the particle. Super slow is still infinitely away from 0. In the article example from the particles view, 0.000..1 seconds pass for the photon to be 1cm ahe
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Assuming people are always getting better yet always producing. Things are and always will be short of the ideal.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I've found that wherever you go there will be people you need to work with that don't live up to your own expectations and it's tempting to dehumanize them as stupid. However since this is the case everywhere I think it'
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think you're missing something fundamental about wanting and it's that we are wired to always want more. I think it's useful to accept this as something universal so we can understand why others and ourselves act the way we

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