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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)

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Post by thriftwy »

PeterisP wrote: post #15
pgt wrote: post #11

> "He eventually pulled together lists of best practices and key principles of innovation based on this work, which became “the theory of inventive problem solving” alternatively known as TRIZ. > Believing he was on to something, he got a little excited and sent Joseph Stalin a letter in 1948 criticizing the lack of innovation within the Soviet system. This earned him a political prisoner title and a 25-year sentence…

Yep, that's how Stalin's science worked if you dared to think that you know better how the system should be run. For example, the USSR space program leader Korolev lost his teeth from malnutrition in a Gulag camp between his earlier rocketry work and sending Gagarin to space; and arguably the best Russian agronomist/geneticist Vavilov died in prison because he dared to criticize the pseudoscience of Lysenko, who was…

I think that parent hints that TRIZ inventor has failed to apply the theory to his social actions.

Sending letters to Stalin is one of the ways to fail miserably in 1948.

Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)

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Post by thehappypm »

g_sch wrote: post #12

It 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-...

I love the dorm design personally and I think its only sin is the lack of windows. If each room had windows I think this design — giving students both privacy and social spaces — would be considered a step forward.

(The “two entrances” argument I think is kind of irrelevant, skyscrapers only have one entrance and it works out fine).

Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)

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Post by bagels »

busterarm wrote: post #41
dymk wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is housing for undergrads on sunny coastal California, not the navy

We're always just one declared war away from changing that. Your life's circumstances can change at a moment's notice. You could fall and have a devastating brain injury. Being comfortable with your circumstances can mostly only come from within.

Bad things can happen, therefore, we should not discourage bad things from happening?

Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)

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Post by tim333 »

jquery wrote: post #47
xyzelement wrote: post #40

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From what I see in responses to you, Munger has designed other well-received dorms in the past so that gives him credibility on this topic. It doesn't mean he's right but it's a good chance his thinking is more nuanced than those shitting on it - especially coupled with the current article that describes how he thinks. This is total conjecture but I can imagine him doing something like this: Question: how do you make…

>well-received By whom? A suspicious site with terrible English and reviews like “you’ll get used to it” and “grat (sic) room”. If Amazon can’t keep scammy reviews away, how is some site like “veryapt” supposed to do so? It seems there is plenty of criticism of the Michigan project (even from residents)[1], but it also differs in a key point, in that all the rooms are suites, whereas the proposed project is even dens…

Highest rated here https://www.veryapt.com/Apartments-L7646-ann-arbor-central-c...

Also good reviews on google - 4.5/5 similar to the above.

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Post by hprotagonist »

queuebert wrote: post #53
hprotagonist wrote: post #43

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Arguably you can only refute hypotheses, if you're of the empiricist mindset about testability, so in a sense that's even _more_ stringent. TRIZ seems to admit of situations where basically, you don't know enough about what your hypothesis ought to be that 'the scientific method' won't get you far enough, so you must proceed by walling off as much of your search space as possible as fast as possible by prioritizing t…

Doesn't this implicitly assume that the negatives are easier to enumerate than the positives? What is the test for this? Gut feeling?

in optimization theory, you pick a cost function and evaluate it.

What cost function to choose is, in fact, something of a matter of taste. Nobody really likes saying that part out loud, though :)

Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)

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g_sch wrote: post #12

It 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-...

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Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)

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Post by busterarm »

bagels wrote: post #63
busterarm wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're always just one declared war away from changing that. Your life's circumstances can change at a moment's notice. You could fall and have a devastating brain injury. Being comfortable with your circumstances can mostly only come from within.

Bad things can happen, therefore, we should not discourage bad things from happening?

Having a windowless bedroom isn't some terrible tragedy that happens to you. It's a minor inconvenience and bit of adversity that is temporary. Probably about 20% of all of the people that I know who moved to New York to pursue their dreams lived for at least a year in an illegal windowless-bedroom shared apartment (they exist because there is demand for cheap housing).

Young people need to be challenged with small bits of adversity from time to time to overcome instead of being coddled and incapable of dealing with real, adult problems by themselves.

I say this as someone who had to drop out of college and become homeless before really getting on my feet in my mid-20s. So many of my peers bitch and moan and live NEET lifestyles as they're pushing 40 because their parents and society promised them the world after college and they never learned that nothing is achieved without hard work.

Re: Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)

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Post by [deleted] »

jquery wrote: post #49
shwoopdiwoop wrote: post #17

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Except all the outrage came from people who never lived in his buildings, and the ones who did gave it overwhelmingly great reviews.

Rave reviews? It seems low quality paid reviews are worth every penny. https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSantaBarbara/comments/qkmp5h/i_wa...

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