> If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived This may seem like impractical advice. How does one increase the scope of perception? Personally, I’ve found that a meditation practice leads to this.
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
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Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#182Thus might be a false memory, but didn't authors blog used to have a post on game development topic?
Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#183And this is one of the main utilitarian arguments for diversity in teams. If everybody has the same socio-cultural background, it's harder to leave the frame.
It's a sound argument. The argument that culturally homogeneous teams perform better due to more efficient communication (more is "already understood" at the outset, so there's less need to communicate explicitly, and fewer misunderstandings) is also sound. So from a purely team-performance-maximising perspective, the question is: Which coefficient is higher? (More generally: What level of mixture is optimal?)
> The argument that culturally homogeneous teams perform better due to more efficient communication (more is "already understood" at the outset, so there's less need to communicate explicitly, and fewer misunderstandings) is also sound.
Did you just define Groupthink, but in positive sounding words?
Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#184A bit tangential, but I have been playing the game "Pinball FX" a lot. I really like it (and especially its spin-off/expansion Pinball M), but it's surprisingly taxing on my computer. I mentioned this to a friend, and he was kind of confused, understandably so, and said "...it's pinball...why is that taxing?" It's not a dumb question, we have had virtual pinball games since the Atari 2600 at least, and even pretty fu…
There is a limit of the tax on hardware set by the sensory resolutions of the game player since anything beyond is not perceivable.
Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#185And this is one of the main utilitarian arguments for diversity in teams. If everybody has the same socio-cultural background, it's harder to leave the frame.
It's a sound argument. The argument that culturally homogeneous teams perform better due to more efficient communication (more is "already understood" at the outset, so there's less need to communicate explicitly, and fewer misunderstandings) is also sound. So from a purely team-performance-maximising perspective, the question is: Which coefficient is higher? (More generally: What level of mixture is optimal?)
There's no one size fits all answer to that.
A team that develops a user interface benefits more from "generic" cultural diversity (gender, ethnicity, social class, etc.) than a team that builds a processor microarchitecture.
But the latter team can still benefit from diversity: if it's all EEs, they'll probably do worse than a team that also has a mathematician, a physicist, a chemical engineer, a finance person, etc on it.
On the other hand, the processor team's communication might be smoother with an all EE team of high "generic" diversity than it would be with all white guys but from very different academic backgrounds.
If you have decent retention, the team will develop its own communication style anyway, so I suspect this factor doesn't matter as much.
Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#186> If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived This may seem like impractical advice. How does one increase the scope of perception? Personally, I’ve found that a meditation practice leads to this.
Physicist Bohm has written about this. That, the beginning of new perception is in mindful listening or mindful awareness.. But most of us are stuck in our thought-rut preventing this.
Perception itself carves out categories almost unconsciously leading to the thought-rut we are in. ie, Bootstrapping the perception of new detail in everyday life is very hard.
Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meditation has totally helped me widen my scope and soften my awareness. I've found these two exercises also help me get out of my default mode of perception. Image Streaming[1] is a fun little exercise that has helped me expand my perception of things or problems. I try to do it in a very high dynamic range way -- where I zoom out of a scene describe it in detail and then zoom in a describe it in detail. There is al…
Found a link to a description of the exercise. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/01/23/impro-by-keith-johnsto...
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Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#188> If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived This may seem like impractical advice. How does one increase the scope of perception? Personally, I’ve found that a meditation practice leads to this.
I always think of it as learning to see hidden dimensions, and once seen, investigate deeper or just imagine transformations of that dimension -- extrapolation, inversion, etc. Once found, you can drag around these hidden dimensions from one domain or one instance to the next. Like sometimes I seem to be in alignment with someone, but things feel off. I once realized the "off" feeling was because I was running toward…
very nicely articulated.. so, you are suggesting to be "sensitive" to "feelings" - such the one of being "off" - since feelings primarily provoke thought. Another feeling that i have is one of "inconsistency" - again it feels like something is off, and you are suggesting to pursue this feeling rather than to brush it aside.
Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#189A bit tangential, but I have been playing the game "Pinball FX" a lot. I really like it (and especially its spin-off/expansion Pinball M), but it's surprisingly taxing on my computer. I mentioned this to a friend, and he was kind of confused, understandably so, and said "...it's pinball...why is that taxing?" It's not a dumb question, we have had virtual pinball games since the Atari 2600 at least, and even pretty fu…
Ball movement on a real pinball machine is three dimensional. The game is designed to keep the ball in contact with the playfield surface as much as possible, but in practice there are lots of imperfections and awkwardly shaped features that can make the ball bounce vertically if it hits them at the right angle. It can sometimes bounce violently enough to hit the glass. This is especially common when you have multipl…
Yeah, exactly my point.
There’s always an infinite number of variables in a real pinball machine. Slight imperfections in the playfield surface making it not completely flat, slight imperfections in the shape of the ball so it’s not a perfect sphere, slight imperfections in the shape of the bumper. I could keep going, but I think there’s literally billions of potential variables that can modify the game.
These might seem insignificant, and in some cases they are, but it’s a chaos theory thing; small imperfections multiplied across enough of a timescale become pretty significant, and that’s a large part of what makes real pinball so much fun.
Of course there’s plenty of things we can do to approximate reality; adding a bit of randomness to the experience probably provides enough chaos to give us something more or less like reality in a lot of cases, but that is just an optimization hack.
Re: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
#190A bit tangential, but I have been playing the game "Pinball FX" a lot. I really like it (and especially its spin-off/expansion Pinball M), but it's surprisingly taxing on my computer. I mentioned this to a friend, and he was kind of confused, understandably so, and said "...it's pinball...why is that taxing?" It's not a dumb question, we have had virtual pinball games since the Atari 2600 at least, and even pretty fu…
There is a limit of the tax on hardware set by the sensory resolutions of the game player since anything beyond is not perceivable.
Is that actually true? That might be true on a small enough time step but there’s enough variation in every physical component of the machine that I think chaos theory would take over in a relatively short amount of time. The ball could fly across the machine in radically different ways even with seemingly the same inputs.
Obviously there’s are ways of spoofing even that, just adding some randomness probably helps a lot.