Other People’s Problems
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Other People’s Problems
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#2Tip: when your solution contains "just (do something)", it's never that simple.
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#3Or, perhaps we could entertain a fantastical explanation: what if no one has free will and thus someone else's problems seem easy to us because our deterministic movements solve them easier than the deterministic movements of the person with the problem?
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#4Or, perhaps we could entertain a fantastical explanation: what if no one has free will and thus someone else's problems seem easy to us because our deterministic movements solve them easier than the deterministic movements of the person with the problem?
But the claimed phenomenon here is that it's (almost) always easier for you to come up with a solution to someone else's problem than for them to do so, not just that some problems are easier for one person than another. There are problems with this claim, I think, but the absence of free will is not an explanation, or at best just reduces it to the question of why, granting the claim, the determinism (almost) always leads to this bias.
(For that matter, nothing in the linked article depends on whether or not we have free will.)
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#5Tip: when your solution contains "just (do something)", it's never that simple.
Yes! I'm always reminded of "Just is a Dangerous Word", from the original wiki:
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#6Tip: when your solution contains "just (do something)", it's never that simple.
And also a counter point, just because things are simple, doesn't mean it is easy.
Those two things are separate and we often get them confused, when things are hard, we think it must be more complex than it is, which is not usually the case.
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#7Tip: when your solution contains "just (do something)", it's never that simple.
When estimating time for a task, every occurrence of the word "just" doubles the estimate.
"Just" always hide a lack of knowledge. Of the problem, of the environment, of the team, of what the future will be.
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#8Or, perhaps we could entertain a fantastical explanation: what if no one has free will and thus someone else's problems seem easy to us because our deterministic movements solve them easier than the deterministic movements of the person with the problem?
But the claimed phenomenon here is that it's (almost) always easier for you to come up with a solution to someone else's problem than for them to do so, not just that some problems are easier for one person than another. There are problems with this claim, I think, but the absence of free will is not an explanation, or at best just reduces it to the question of why, granting the claim, the determinism (almost) always…
The outside with the solution doesn't have to live with the result and likely doesn't comprehend the un-stated nuances of the situation.
That makes problem solving easy.
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#9Or, perhaps we could entertain a fantastical explanation: what if no one has free will and thus someone else's problems seem easy to us because our deterministic movements solve them easier than the deterministic movements of the person with the problem?
That would just move the question *, not give an answer.
* to: "OK, and why would our deterministic movements solve them easier than the deterministic movements of the person with the problem?"
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#10My general experience is often people think problems are easy to solve from the outside because they just don't understand the problem.
Thus you can often find communities of people with disabilities who understand the problems and the people from the outside who offer insulting and simple solutions to the problems.
As soon as someone falls from group B into group A the problems stop becoming simple and easily soluble though.