Top-down is a plan of how the WHOLE is going to work Bottom-up is how you intend to EXECUTE various subparts By nature top subsumes the bottom, but it’s only at the bottom that you explore it in all practical nuance (i.e. literally execute). And only once you executed the constituent parts — do …
Author: Janus
Fuck Your Neurosis
Your problems give rise to thoughts and emotional states Thought is how you abstract, strategise, plan Emotional states is how you execute The problem is then solved… or isn’t, who cares Thought should go away, emotions should calm But like most things in nature — there’s a certain momentum to given phenomena, a hysteresis, …
Object Thinking vs RELATIONAL Thinking
We tend to consider reality in terms of FIXED OBJECTS, ENTITIES, E.g. dog, tree, you, me, Scotsman, Russia, etc. This of course runs into multiple problems, Entity you assume to be fixed — often eludes fixed boundaries, Which poisons your reasoning with category errors, E.g. judging entire race by the behaviour of some of …
Voters Are Always Stupid — It’s Elites That Failed Us
Voters will always be stupid Too stupid to understand the nuance of government, the system, anyway Too stupid to appreciate the legacy they have inherited Therefore it’s elites that failed us Voters are always dumber than the final political, government, business product But elites lead and carry the entire system on their shoulders They …
Broad, then Depth, then OPPORTUNISM
-Let’s define broad as “the whole” -Let’s define narrow as the smallest division -Let’s consider “normal” breadth as the kind of breadth of subject matters that most people engage -Let’s consider “normal” narrow as the kind of focus that most people achieve in their single career First let’s acknowledge that those two are not …
Arrogance Reappears at Every Level of Ability
Every level of intelligence and ability has to solve the problem of ARROGANCE anew When you’re stupid you’re arrogant because you don’t know that you don’t know. Your stupid and wrong explanations fool you into false confidence You’ll take the dumbest explanation to the most complex problem, because you have no ability to discern …
Changing Your Mind Doesn’t Make It Right
The default state of knowledge is UNKNOWN Therefore, when you realise what you thought you knew was false — you usually just return to that pitiful state of NOT knowing Sometimes you at least learn what is NOT But often you don’t even know that Often the only thing you learned is that you: …
Modest In Understanding, Cautious In Action, Yet Utterly Arrogant In Speech
-your relation to most things is that “YOU DON’T KNOW” -and you know that you don’t know — because you could test it -you could test your understanding by making predictions -you could BET on your predictions -but you don’t. You know you’d lose Every action you take is a bet on certain state …
Conflicting Desires Have You End Up Empty Handed
We have conflicting desires We’re not aware of that conflict As a result, we reconcile them sloppily examples: We may convince ourselves we don’t really want something. We may reject something because it’s “not good enough”. We may even resent something, if we can’t have it. Of course if such is our reconciliation …
United by Shared Vices
We’re not only joined by values and virtues, my friend VICES can also UNITE us Like attracts like, doesn’t it? That would be one mechanism But why would you be attracted to something ugly? Well, you wouldn’t be repelled if it wasn’t a net negative to you. We tend to be attracted by …