What’s LEFT does not replace that which has passed The photograph does not replace the person, though it looks the same The person that changed is NOT the same person, though it’s named the same The place feels different without someone or something, though it’s still the same place etc Let’s not pretend …
Tag: Reality
Knowledge From TESTING, Knowledge From Congruence – Epistemic Loop
For all purposes, you know something to be TRUE — if it WORKS. e.g. you know it’s true that your cart is useful — it helps you move logs It works and you TESTED it. But what do you do when you can’t test it? Well then you look for that which is already …
Fake Is Fundamentally Stupid
Fake is fundamentally stupid What is stupid? It’s lack of intelligence, lack of understanding What’s lack of intelligence? It’s failure to manipulate information to one’s advantage What is lack of understanding? It’s the untrue, Untrue, which is, again: failure to manipulate reality. It’s true if if works: whether it’s a prediction (e.g. theory), or …
The Deepest Reason Why Admitting Wrong Is Hard
Admitting wrong is hard, but doable But Admitting wrong — when you KNOW other’s won’t even understand it — is very very hard This is because there’s infinite many reasons to hold a certain position And infinite many reasons to hold opposing position You hold it for some specific own reason If that reason …
Emotionality Explains The World Even More Than I Thought
We understand that we are emotional We understand that we get upset, get angry, get sad, get scared — and make subpar decisions under that influence I still think we FAIL to fully appreciate JUST HOW MUCH we are driven by EMOTIONS And just how much the WORLD is driven by emotions And how …
Gentlemanly Lessons From Chess
“Play stupid games — win stupid prices”. Chess is no exception Even if you’re a grandmaster — quit chess, it’s a waste of life Gods are embarrassed with you That’s one lesson of chess — don’t waste life on fake games, fake competition, and fake prices Ok, there’s one more lesson to chess …
How The FAKE Will Look MORE Legit
It’s not just that the FAKE, the advertised, the scammy — look BETTER than the real thing It will often even look more LEGIT More legit than the real thing Is a Ferrari the most telling indication of material wealth? It’s not a horrible indication. Even renting a Ferrari requires a dollar or two …
COMPARISON as a Useful Model
Comparison, metaphor — is like a model of a thing The purpose of a model is to represent something Model is of course NOT the thing itself It is but it’s representation It omits certain aspects of it — and represents other aspects In having a copy: theoretical or scaled down or whatever — …
Absolute vs Relative Truth (In PRACTICAL Terms)
Let’s NOT go down the rabbit hole of how to DEFINE TRUTH, what IS TRUTH, etc, Let’s try to practically unpack the problem of truth Practically would entail utility, practical usefulness We could thus define truth as THAT WHICH WORKS This is good for start Enough to get us amazing tech Enough to …
Engineering = Practical and Rigorous = Useful Mental Models
Mathematics is perfectly rigorous — but nevertheless too abstract Spirituality, psychology, are abstract yet tangible — alas hardly rigorous Engineering is the perfect marriage of RIGOROUS yet PRACTICAL The world is messy Some of this messiness is impossible to make sense of Those that pretend to be making sense of it are typically delusional, …