There’s the entirety of your psyche: what you want, what you like, what you do, what drives you, etc It’s your thoughts and feelings and actions You feel more or less comfortable with revealing this PSYCHE of yours We tend to feel the most comfortable with our actions — since everyone can see them …
Tag: Understanding
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 …
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 …
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, …
We Don’t Even Comprehend WHEN We Can’t Comprehend
We don’t know that we don’t know That’s why beginners think they are experts (Dunning-Kruger effect). They DON’T KNOW how much more there is to know — therefore they think they know ALL there is to know — therefore they think they are experts But Dunning-Kruger effect is known, go read about it, …
I Don’t Think I’m Qualified
“I don’t think I’m qualified” are beautiful words The observation of this text is not the rather obvious Dunning-Kruger effect Scio me nihil scire i.e. that the most ignorant are the most ignorant of their own ignorance the most incompetent don’t even know they are incompetent and that the most knowledgeable understand just how …