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by hsbshs 2y ago
So they ate with their hands? Now wondering if forks/chopsticks emerged due to noodle emergence and domination.
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by hsbshs 2y ago
Try translating differential equations or musical notations or chemical formulas into english. When we find one language to be useless or inefficient at representing reality we create another language. Language is just a tool we use to thin
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by hsbshs 2y ago
Thats cause age doesnt signal what stress or trauma you have dealt with in life. Depends totally on the life experience of the person. Look at the reactions of friends and family to the Luigi Mangione story. They are all universally suprise
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by hsbshs 2y ago
You have to find a prob by talking to orgs on the ground and then think about tech applications. Doing it the other way round can be frustrating. Useful to read James C Scotts Seeing like a State.
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by hsbshs 2y ago
Well there is the Chinese and Russian example. The power just gets misused and creates it own issues. People want simple and quick solutions. And they dont like answers they dont want to hear. Specifically about what behavior is rewarded an
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by hsbshs 2y ago
Its complex cause you cant really find one person to blame. What no one really says is we are struggling with complexity overload. And what complicates it is all the people's wealth and status accumulation falsely signals control. When
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by hsbshs 2y ago
I had a weird boss once, who would reframe every prob or discussion into an explore-exploit tradeoff and how to "push" the ratio between the two towards more explore. So for example he would say things like okay we have 10 ppl in