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by quacked 5y ago
This one is great too: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
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by quacked 5y ago
That is an excellent way to phrase it. The only other piece of writing that I know of that has the same "reconsider your unconscious beliefs" effect is the now-dead blog "The Last Psychiatrist".
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by quacked 5y ago
My understanding of farming is closer to yours. Farming in order to afford property tax, healthcare, college tuition, retirement savings, mortgage, and your own costs in crops, livestock, or tools is hellish and terrifying. If those costs a
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Ask HN: How Do You Learn to Solve Logic and Math Problems?
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by quacked 5y ago
The idea that one's career must bring personal and spiritual fulfillment is one of the most damaging bits of propaganda fed to young people, I think.
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by quacked 5y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, I know at least 15 people who got some kind of art degree, they pefer to work brutal late-night shifts at a pizza shop or deliver food/drive Uber than take a spreadsheet jockey temp jo
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by quacked 5y ago
I don't know if you're still checking this comment chain, but I don't think from my other comments that I mentioned bringing a central authority into the equation. I realize that the concept of a central moral authority &quot
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by quacked 5y ago
I in turn disagree with you. Children learn social norms and practices through interaction with other children, sure. Social concepts, like "what is a country", "what is the most ethical legal system", "what is the
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by quacked 5y ago
I would go as far as to say school is industrial daycare. Asserting that schools provide value to society because people learn things within their boundaries is, in my opinion, like saying that caffeine pills provide value to tired people b
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by quacked 5y ago
> If the vast majority of people just want to specialize and pay people to perform other tasks, that's their prerogative, too. Your sort of radical individualism, which is mostly accepted by the tech gentry, has proven absolutely di
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by quacked 5y ago
> Do you also oppose people having more than 2 children? Yeah, if you want to keep the aggregate demand of your society consistent, it makes sense to have fewer than 2 children. (I don't necessarily support government prevention peo
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by quacked 5y ago
I think we're agreeing here too, and that's the point of my main comment. If we both agree that more ultrasounds may be needed, then let me stop on this hedonic treadmill of producing slight increases in code efficiency or tapping
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by quacked 5y ago
That is a fair criticism; I don't have a perfect solution built out right now, so I can't paint you a picture of how a theoretical nation full of well-educated laborers and farmers building things and providing for themselves woul
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by quacked 5y ago
Hm, well, I appreciate you pointing out that you agree with me, I got snippy in another response to you on a different comment chain. I still don't think I've successfully explained this concept of changing the job-as-endless-labo
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by quacked 5y ago
Jesus Christ, this is like trying to convince the blind men that the elephant exists. What, do you think it takes a lifetime of practice to operate specialized equipment? They send a crew of high school dropouts and semi-fluent immigrants t
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by quacked 5y ago
Huh, I didn't realize that we didn't have any issues in the US with people having AC in their house or receiving medical care. Come on, man. This is simple. I recently got a $10,000 hospital bill for an ultrasound, for which insur
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by quacked 5y ago
Everyone has been tricked into believing that the best use of their time is to "get the best job", and the "job" is working at a hyper-specialized set of tasks, day-in, day-out. They claw at each other like crabs, dismay
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by quacked 5y ago
That is one of the many reasons I oppose mass immigration; a constant influx of new people makes it far, far more difficult for a single locality to figure out how best to reduce its own demand and come to a reasonably stable local identity
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by quacked 5y ago
I've said it in a few other comments- everyone has a very, very standard rat-race vision of what a "job" is. You, other commenters that are downvoting me, and the gentlemen you worked with all have the conception that a &quot
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by quacked 5y ago
IQ, education experience, the oppression of society, take your pick. Take an average programmer and an average backhoe operator. Give them both 120 hours to train at each other's jobs, monitored by an expert. Who will be a more suitabl
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by quacked 5y ago
But your conception of "amateur you" is fed by your (again, I'm assuming) 16 years in school, when you could have spent 200 of those hours learning how to clean up freeway crashes. You don't have to be an amateur, unle
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by quacked 5y ago
Outdoor jobs: growing food, infrastructure repair, dock loading, police work, etc. If there's a big crash on the highway and it's 100 degrees out, someone's still got to go direct traffic, clean up the glass, etc. If you expe
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by quacked 5y ago
Do you mean "make the kind of money", or "live the kind of lifestyle"? In order to provide you with the lifestyle you take for granted, several million actions must be undertaken by people around the globe (drill for oil
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by quacked 5y ago
But you still think that someone should do outdoor jobs where you live. Why them and not you? Their jobs are open to you, but your job is not open to them. How do you reconcile expecting the rewards of other people's labor if you would
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by quacked 5y ago
I have noticed the same thing. I just don't see any reason why, across a span of a 60 year career, you can't do both at the same time- part time astrophysicist, part-time knife maker. I'd repair potholes or monitor an industr
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by quacked 5y ago
I don't think I agree with this assessment. I myself am "brainy", but working for actually useful endeavors is easy to balance with a rich, involved life. I can happily dig rocks out of the ground in the morning and write pla
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by quacked 5y ago
I wonder if the economists have ever considered a society where brainy people are happy and proud to perform basic sustenance work- construction, manufacture of textiles, farming, driving, etc.
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by quacked 5y ago
Voltaire didn't say "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it", and in fact I've only ever seen that quote used to make fun of people who naively believe in the "principle of
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by quacked 5y ago
This is such a ridiculous thing to get annoyed about. I work with a bunch of Croatians; do you really think they prefer that I speak English (US), or would they like it more if I were fluent in Croatian?
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by quacked 5y ago
You must work for my company! The primary issue is that these 5 steps work .

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