There's a 4th way, but it works least often. Maybe Method 2.5 fits better: Wait for the problem to fix itself to your level of risk. Ex: This road is blocked. I have a good news it won't be blocked in X days/months/years. Let's just wait until it's a little better for us to travel down and do something else for a just little while. It's a hybrid between waiting for the path to open up for everyone and forcing your way through. Taking a stepping stone between changing the world and changing your solution to the problem.
Three ways to solve problems
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Re: Three ways to solve problems
#12A favorite of mine: assume a sub-problem has a solution (even though it doesn't), and solve everything else assuming that solution holds.
I find that after I do that, once I have a solution for everything else, a less-general solution to the sub-problem is often sufficient to keep the global solution valid.
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#13Where does "Make the problem worse so someone else fixes it" fit?
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#15A favorite of mine: assume a sub-problem has a solution (even though it doesn't), and solve everything else assuming that solution holds. I find that after I do that, once I have a solution for everything else, a less-general solution to the sub-problem is often sufficient to keep the global solution valid.
I wonder what a specific example of this approach would be.
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#16Where does "Make the problem worse so someone else fixes it" fit?
It's in own category for higher level beings who make pot holes bigger until it gets fixed.
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#17I wrote this up as the four disagreements. https://blog.onepatchdown.net/philosophy/2023/10/03/four-pil...
This misses bad faith, lack of good will and assume an aligned objective (i.e. lack of selfishness)
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#18It's very interesting that he's talking about start-ups.
I worked for one of Fragner's start-ups and it was an unmitigated disaster in all ways.
He secretly recorded a meeting with myself.
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#19A favorite of mine: assume a sub-problem has a solution (even though it doesn't), and solve everything else assuming that solution holds. I find that after I do that, once I have a solution for everything else, a less-general solution to the sub-problem is often sufficient to keep the global solution valid.
I wonder what a specific example of this approach would be.
I'm intrigued and would appreciate further examples/explanations too.
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#20The site's text is medium blue on a gray background with a font-weight of 300. I'm all for a bit of visual variety and personal expressiveness but this is pushing the boundaries of accessible legibility on some systems and screens.
(Yes, I realize there are various browser accessibility tools, reader modes and even custom CSS overrides, but I'd prefer not being forced to force those things on for all sites - because it means that "bit of visual variety and personal expressiveness" no longer exists for increasing numbers of visitors.)