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by jondeval 4y ago
I second this. However I'd like to note that in the later chapters, Cal Newport does develop the concept of 'mission' which has some overlap with the concept of purpose but is defined more constructively.
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by jondeval 4y ago
This is an interesting article. My takeaway is that this British team during the war seems to have streamlined a process for surfacing leadership traits that are relevant in a military context. Lately, my view on what makes a good leader an
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by jondeval 4y ago
I think in practice there is no 'they' where some sort of single bean-counter trade-off decision is made to compute an abstract utility function that weighs troop morale against expenditure. More realistically, it's a human d
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by jondeval 4y ago
Good luck to you. Going through a job hunt is tricky. It sounds like you have an interested company and I hope it works out. Keep pushing. > They all want innovative problem solvers with deep knowledge but don't ask the interview qu
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by jondeval 4y ago
Sometimes I daydream about starting a product company and my thinking goes like this: Do you have a decent idea that solves a real problem? - yes, check. Do you have respect for the iterations and learning required to find product market fi
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by jondeval 4y ago
All things being equal, wouldn't it be better to deal with a technological arms race in ICBM defensive capabilities instead of offensive capabilities?
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by jondeval 4y ago
See this is interesting to me. I tend to agree with you and I think I would be in the de-escalate camp. Now even if that group is in the minority, how large of a minority would it have to be to at least question the 'guaranteed immedia
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by jondeval 4y ago
When I've read about scenarios like this or the topic of mutually assured destruction is discussed, I notice that the concept of 'retaliation' is taken as a given. The premise of immediate retaliation creates the hypothetical
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by jondeval 4y ago
WRT to pay. I tend to have a very simple view. Employers will try to pay the lowest wage they can get away with for a given quality standard and employees will demand the highest wage they can get away with. I think discussions about '
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by jondeval 4y ago
I understand your point. And I completely agree that many of our chosen mathematical structures, and even physical models are contingent and likely accidents of history and sensory constraints. I'm comfortable living with the tension b
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by jondeval 4y ago
> What reason is there to believe that alien civilizations would encode physics exactly as we do and would recover the same constant? There is no reason to believe the symbolic encoding would be the same. For example, if they evolved wit
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by jondeval 4y ago
Right. You are touching on the central point of the comment.
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by jondeval 4y ago
Gotcha. I did preface this definition with the word 'candidate' and I acknowledge that there may be good alternate formulations. The spirit of this particular exchange is about whether or not 'justice' can be formulated
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by jondeval 4y ago
This is spot on. For concreteness, let me give a candidate definition for the virtue of justice: Justice - rendering to each person what is owed to them. It's obvious that we will very often disagree about 'what is owed', but
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by jondeval 4y ago
Some of that is a stylistic judgement call on the part of pg. He wants to move quickly to his central idea, not enter into a nuanced discussion of the philosophy of mathematics. I think pg is educated, at least the broad outline, of the age
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by jondeval 4y ago
I really liked this essay. It poses some interesting questions, but it's short and it doesn't try to do too much. There is overlap between pg's ideas and what in the classical tradition is called Natural Law Theory. PG may or
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by jondeval 4y ago
> That's a rather naive view of truth. I'm a puzzled by the confidence here. I would assume pg is at least minimally familiar with some of the key philosophical themes and schools of thought around this topic. > For intuitio
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by jondeval 4y ago
I think agitating publically on a pro-abortion position is rare and considered unseemly by most liberals. However I do believe there are many situations where people will find themselves under pro-abortion pressure. For example, I know many
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by jondeval 4y ago
> For some reason I'm a hard-core libertarian so I kind of hate my own core values. I'd even go so far as to acknowledge that my ideal world would be close to hell for most people. I don't want to be this way. I just seem
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by jondeval 4y ago
That's right. Having a conversation is an art and there is absolutely a role for good faith tactics to help bring out the truth of things.
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by jondeval 4y ago
I do think there are a subset of people who are genuinely open minded. These people are actively curious and looking to iterate toward a more accurate view of reality. When you meet people like this there are no 'tactics' ... it&#
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The Truth About Bill Gates(firstthings.com)
6 points by jondeval 4y ago|0 comments
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by jondeval 4y ago
I find this proposal problematic. There is a world of difference between reporting on a violation in your community because you're a concerned citizen, and directly incentivizing citizens to report on each other. I'm sure you can
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by jondeval 4y ago
I agree with this. I find it so weird that there exists a strong cultural stereotype with a narrative that young people are more independent minded and rebellious. I can very often predict the opinion people in their 20's with very few
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by jondeval 4y ago
I think there is a major competitive advantage here for small employers that know what they are doing. If you are running a small US/EU based company and you find someone great in an offshore local, then you can dramatically increase t
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by jondeval 4y ago
For anyone interested, the article overlaps quite a bit with the ideas of the German philosopher Josef Pieper. His book 'Leisure: The Basis of Culture' is a fairly short read and can really shift your perspective if you're gr
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by jondeval 4y ago
This.
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by jondeval 4y ago
A higher level approach that I try follow is to design a quick experiment, log output etc., as soon as I 'think I know what the problem is related to'. Because I'm very often wrong about correlated events in the system actual
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by jondeval 4y ago
Yes. The Bible does include a creation of the world story which if taken literally would lead to an interpretation of God as the creator in sense (2). But the point is that there is this other sense, (1) above, in which God is the creator.
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by jondeval 4y ago
This content is nicely titled: 'Creation isn't what you think it is.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o8mGHN9t10 It gives a nice quick and better overview of the point I was trying to bring out. The video he

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