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Conformity and perfectionism is the western translation, but they are inaccurate, for the same reasons most translations are inaccurate. They are translations by appearance only. As a culture perfectionism is shunned, and individuality is e
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In Japan perfectionism is not encouraged. The rough translation kanpeki shugi (完璧主義) will bring up more ways to fix it than become it on the first page of google. What the Japanese culture and other Asian cultures similarly encourage howe
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Isn't what he describes "the Perfect Solution" problem? In politics, it's used to block any progress by attacking the fact that the solution is not perfect. Obama talks about it often in relation to getting things done.
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That's not the point though. Even just driving is "just doing it". Most driving is autopilot. Awareness is not necessarily "thinking". We don't deliberate/contemplate/philosophize while driving unless
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"Non-verbal thought" is fine, but that's not the opposite of what I mean by "thinking". > I have specific non-verbal handles for these thoughts, Right. But you have handles. Just assume by "words" I me
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Right. I absolutely get this argument, except, the alternative to idiots misusing the tools is for those same idiots to start with no tools! And they're going to somehow implement and upload what they're building anyway...
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In all seriousness, shouldn't all the frameworks just have some validation built in? Being that this is such a "global" WTF problem. I would love to be able to say ini_set('sanitize_rest', true) and deal with errors
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> driving trips don't involve a monologue You're not thinking when you're driving though. The term is highway hypnosis. When we know what we're doing, we become unconscious and unaware, granting us bandwidth to think
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Yes, to be more precise, the expression would be "we articulate our thoughts with words". Words are not equal to our thoughts, but they are the product, and the interface, and used to represent, and treated as if they are it. So w
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> Not everyone does this. Yes, you do need to be literate. But if you are, and you think, what do you hear? And what did you just write, if not your thoughts? Except directed to me/HN after confirmed with yourself? I would not use t
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But I think we're getting there. To say the brain doesn't work like a formal system and to say how the brain works cannot be formalized are two distinct statements. Natural language may not be a formal language, but the process of
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> and computation you can describe in words and communicate to other brains But we think in words. Thinking and speaking come from the same place, and when we are thinking, most of it is us talking to ourselves. It's our inner dialo
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Thinking is already computation. Computational is redundant. We just need to incorporate what we've begun to understand through computer science into our own common sense. This is the correct approach, except, it is the only approach a
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This piece is actually about excuses more than anything else. > “Have you ever missed a plane?” she asked. I had not. “Then you can help it. You just care more about yourself than about the needs of others.” Typical. Feelings always come
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As entrepreneurs and employers it's part of our jobs to make the jobs we create as fun as possible... but at the end of the day if the work itself is boring, there is not much we can add to make it fun. So we offer money, and it works.
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Passion is fuel. To say you need more than passion to be successful is like saying you need more than gasoline to get to your destination. You need a car. But to then turn and say I don't need passion because I have a job is like sayin
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Human-like intelligence entails many things. Some of which are harder than others, of which some have already been accomplished. The main issue is with treating the problem as one problem and equating our simulation as one simulation. They
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To engineer anything, we need to understand it. The options you are weighing are between understanding the brain so we can write programs that run on robots that would exhibit human-like behavior, and understanding the nature of organic evo
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To the best of my knowledge this is the holdup. We need an encrypted cloud. One we know only we have the keys to. There will be no data mining beyond users mining themselves, when it comes to privacy, with the line drawn by the user, not th
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I really wish they asked if they had friends, real or imaginary. And if they had income. And if they shopped online. That would make a big difference in what the survey actually means. The internet could arguably be far larger, faster, and
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Just to add, regarding (d), buckets will make themselves based on work, and people will make buckets for themselves based on who they are. So you want these buckets to match. Except, as a manager or an employer, you really have little contr
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Exactamundo. And if you're at a decent company, your manager's job entails promoting staff and recruiting managers. Maybe you'll even physically replace your manager so they can move on up. Managers are in the meetings where
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Yes, of course there are managers that suck. After all it's just another job. There are companies that suck. Some are big enough to not have to care or notice undervalued talent. If you're talented, you don't want to be there
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You're a great worker. If you're autonomous, you're already good at managing yourself and your own work, so you're half way there. You're the person that would be high on the list of potential recruits for manageria
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I've read both sides of these arguments everywhere, leading me to believe both sides must hold some degree of truth. The problem with these "arguments" is they are mostly from experience. It's difficult to argue with exp
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I've experienced first hand why businesses need bureaucracy, because I resisted building one. Turns out it's the same reason cars have 4 wheels. It just works. Some workers require oversight to be productive, and for some it just
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The key is to offer something in exchange for the ad view. Like in Sim City and Abyssrium, they actually give you something. When it becomes a choice, it becomes a willful transaction, and not only do users willingly and repeatedly watch ad
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You can be inexperienced and still be completely objective, and vice versa. Objectivity is the skill, and experience is the asset. Interest is also a separate asset. The author seems to assume we get bored and lose interest with experience,
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Exactly. When this (and the like) goes mainstream, and I can buy standard-based hardware, IoT will explode. Consumers do not trust corporations, and will not let them in their home. (This might sound counter intuitive because corporations a
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IoT will explode when 1) open hardware gains unprecedented trust between the user and their hardware, 2) users begin to prefer open source software because that's just how the most secure and user-first software is maintained, and 3) T

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