great article. This seems similar to the idea of eliminating wrong answers to try to guess the right answer if you don't know the right answer from given choices.
Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
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Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except all the outrage came from people who never lived in his buildings, and the ones who did gave it overwhelmingly great reviews.
The building has not yet been built.
There was a similarly designed building someone linked to in a previous thread that had rave reviews pre-Covid.
Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except all the outrage came from people who never lived in his buildings, and the ones who did gave it overwhelmingly great reviews.
The building has not yet been built.
This is not his first time designing dorms: https://housing.umich.edu/residence-hall/munger/
Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except all the outrage came from people who never lived in his buildings, and the ones who did gave it overwhelmingly great reviews.
The building has not yet been built.
There is a smaller version of it at UMich: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2015/07/heres_your_firs...
Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except all the outrage came from people who never lived in his buildings, and the ones who did gave it overwhelmingly great reviews.
The building has not yet been built.
The building is apparently in the same mould as a highly-rated[1] one already in use at the University of Michigan. The people (graduate students?) who live there seem to like it more than any other campus housing option.
[1]: https://www.veryapt.com/Apartments-L7646-ann-arbor-central-c...
Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
#26It took a second for me to make this connection, but the Charlie Munger in this article is the same Charlie Munger who designed that windowless dorm at UCSB that made the news a few days back. [0] I wonder if he applied the same principles to designing that building. [0] https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-...
Yes. Except it looks like he was thinking “how can I make student housing intolerable” and stopped there, instead of inverting it.
Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
#27It took a second for me to make this connection, but the Charlie Munger in this article is the same Charlie Munger who designed that windowless dorm at UCSB that made the news a few days back. [0] I wonder if he applied the same principles to designing that building. [0] https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-...
Except it seems he forgot to invert the question of "How would I design an absolutely depressing and dangerous place to live?" then came up with that design.
If we’re going to need people to populate austere environments lile Mars, we’re going to need people used to living without windows.
Works for the Navy.
Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except it seems he forgot to invert the question of "How would I design an absolutely depressing and dangerous place to live?" then came up with that design.
If we’re going to need people to populate austere environments lile Mars, we’re going to need people used to living without windows. Works for the Navy.
This is housing for undergrads on sunny coastal California, not the navy
Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except it seems he forgot to invert the question of "How would I design an absolutely depressing and dangerous place to live?" then came up with that design.
Except all the outrage came from people who never lived in his buildings, and the ones who did gave it overwhelmingly great reviews.
I wouldn’t describe “you’ll get used to lack of windows” as rave reviews. It looks suspiciously like the reviews were farmed out, the english is atrocious and the reviews are very generic.
Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)
#30TRIZ practitioners quickly realized that the root cause of some problems cannot easily be identified, which makes a frontal assault on them impossible. This kind of problem is solved with TRIZ’s Anticipatory Failure Determination mental model — rather than solving for success, solve for failure. This is pretty darn close to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theology : I can't tell you what The Good Thing is, bu…
Isn't this just the scientific method?
Disproving a hypothesis is much easier than proving one.