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imachine1980_ wrote: post #93
Ensorceled wrote: post #83

I found the biases revealed by some of the examples fascinating, for example: > 16. Russell Conjugation: Journalists often change the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example…

I need to write a post about why the invisible hands doesn't mean what people think, it means if you kill the king, the system won't collapse because the secret sauce of the society is in the trade of the parts, Adam's Smith write about that people aren't rational and that we need controls over monopolies, most what people think Smith say is what Lucas say.

cartels can function like a monopoly. we need to manage pricing power as a society.

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wenc wrote: post #40
mif wrote: post #11

One idea that changed my life is stop believing that other people have changed their lives based on ideas. The only way of change is by habit.

I actually changed my mind based on some simple ideas. Carol Dweck wrote a book called Mindset, which talks about two mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. The idea is super simple, and you don't even need to read the book to know what it is. But just knowing that idea changed my entire motivation to do things, and now I believe that even if I'm not talented at something, I can get surprisingly far. (for in…

I think the parent comment was pointing out ideas without habits(or you called it practice) won't really get you very far.

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maccard wrote: post #119
lll-o-lll wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Incremental approaches are limited. A basic example of this is scaling. A chemical process worked out in a lab cannot be incrementally scaled for effective production with bigger test tubes. The entire production process must be designed again from scratch. Incremental approaches to designing a control system with many if statements will never evolve into a PID controller. Nor will a PID controller be evolved into be…

This is a known problem in math, it's called a local maximum. It's a function of where you start on the graph. Experience and understanding can let you start in a different place on the graph that may be less efficient but have a higher local maximum.

but you don't usually just jump from one peak to another. there's series of repeat failures that have to happen to get to the next mountain to traverse(usually there could be point solutions I suppose)

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Post by zeruch »

imachine1980_ wrote: post #93
Ensorceled wrote: post #83

I found the biases revealed by some of the examples fascinating, for example: > 16. Russell Conjugation: Journalists often change the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example…

I need to write a post about why the invisible hands doesn't mean what people think, it means if you kill the king, the system won't collapse because the secret sauce of the society is in the trade of the parts, Adam's Smith write about that people aren't rational and that we need controls over monopolies, most what people think Smith say is what Lucas say.

I'd wager over 90% of people who 'quote' Adam Smith have never actually read more than a choice de-contextualized quote, and understand his actual positions at all.

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Post by sharemywin »

CapstanRoller wrote: post #136

>Horseshoe Theory: Extreme opposites tend to look the same. For example, a far-right movement and a far-left movement can be equally violent or desire a similar outcome. This is terrible political ignorance disguised as "advice". Violence is the most fundamental form of influence, and is not owned by any particular political party or position, nor does the willingness to use violence communicate anything except that…

outside of the political analogy. this seems like a symmetry argument, which can have applications like realizing tic tac toe can be reduce by using rotational and mirror symmetry. I'm sure math people have better names but you get the point.

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Post by sharemywin »

owenpalmer wrote: post #45

> 9. Competition is for Losers This one is weird. First of all, competition can be very healthy and good for everyone. Sure, there's toxic games you can play in life, but anyone who's ever actually competed at something knows the difference.

the world is full of competition. write the article is a competition against other articles.

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Post by sharemywin »

satvikpendem wrote: post #46
owenpalmer wrote: post #45

> 9. Competition is for Losers This one is weird. First of all, competition can be very healthy and good for everyone. Sure, there's toxic games you can play in life, but anyone who's ever actually competed at something knows the difference.

I wonder if it's the Peter Thiel meaning of the phrase. His entire book Zero to One is about how one should strive to do things no one else has done, for true capturing of the market. Of course, that's much easier said than done.

There's still competition your just playing with a stacked deck.

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Post by ukuina »

npteljes wrote: post #99
Ensorceled wrote: post #83

I found the biases revealed by some of the examples fascinating, for example: > 16. Russell Conjugation: Journalists often change the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example…

>Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example group for this conjugation. I think for the same reason people blame web developers for how websites are built, ignoring that the web developer is not the product manager.

To be fair, groupthink in web design has generally led to worse performance with 100kb pageloads to show 1kb of content, and this blame generally does not reside with the product manager.

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Post by wenc »

sharemywin wrote: post #142
wenc wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually changed my mind based on some simple ideas. Carol Dweck wrote a book called Mindset, which talks about two mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. The idea is super simple, and you don't even need to read the book to know what it is. But just knowing that idea changed my entire motivation to do things, and now I believe that even if I'm not talented at something, I can get surprisingly far. (for in…

I think the parent comment was pointing out ideas without habits(or you called it practice) won't really get you very far.

So habits are different from practice (I meant it in the sense of “application”, not so much in the sense of practicing the piano).

Habits refer to repetition, which implies you already know what to do so you’re just trying to get better at it. This works in closed domains where there is already a body of knowledge or pedagogy.

What I meant by practice is more about “applying” something — which means lots of experimentation to figure out what works. (In other words being a practitioner of ideas, rather than just a knower of them)

A lot of ideas that sound nice often fail when the rubber meets the road, which is why you have to subject them to the crucible of the real world through practice.

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