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Just about any original scientific text or undertaking begins with a literature review.

No there are definitely bad products.

A prescriptive sentiment masquerading as a descriptive evaluation.

In many ways the false expert is more harmful than the do-nothing layman.

I agree somewhat, in the sense that climate change will have happened slow enough and on a wide enough scale that its impact on human geographic dispersion, social organization, and reproductive patterns will be imperceptible to those feeling its effects.

It won’t be a catastrophe simply by nature of lacking the sudden violence necessary to qualify. Will it suck, will it transform things for the worse, and will our successors envy us, if not outright loathe and resent us? Definitely.

It’s not the way, it’s a way. Life-saving notices are often redundant to reach as wide of an audience as possible, e.g. public radio, commercial radio, sirens.

People simply do better when they work together and try to make each others’ lives better.

Your points seem to be meandering and I’m content where we’ve come in this conversation. Be well!

They counted their friends and colleagues among their employers, actually. And the government’s GI Bill and veterans’ administration’s work placement and employee advocacy programs were among their most cherished programs.

It makes sense if we assume that the API’s change in performance was deliberate.

My grandparents were dustbowl survivors and veterans who humbly attribute their survival and later success to their neighbors, friends, and colleagues that helped them, and whom they spent their later lives trying to pay back in kindness and friendship.

The influence of our relationships, and who we know, on our worldview is certainly fascinating.

My grandparents had church, social clubs, mutual aid organizations, and unions which all helped (paid for) support of one kind or another during their hardships.

Working together and accommodating others is probably one of the strengths we’ve actually failed to foster in the contemporary context, to our detriment. The atomization of the individual and the cult of silent suffering is something they’d balk or pity us for.

The scarcity isn’t in the reproducibility of intellectual property. It’s in human motivation.

Maybe, but I’m cautious about assuming my own superiority, i.e. that my lonely cohort and I are the only ones able to read and infer the proper meaning from writing, and that others are too easily misguided.

It’s useful in the argument that (1) states, as they’ve grown in size have also been reigned-in due to the power that comes with their size, and (2) that companies, as they grow in size, must be reigned-in due to the power that comes with their size (anti-trust, anti-monopoly).

Metaphors are useful but they can also just confuse the issue through unnecessary abstraction. The fundamental question is already there at the surface: it’s not about market capitalization or about gdp, but about the power that size in either metric represents. That’s the characteristic binding these two dissimilar ideas together.

Using those three characteristics as necessary conditions for authoritarian dictatorship excludes many actual historical authoritarian dictatorships as well.

The size of some companies can be taken for granted. Living in a western industrialized country with many large companies, it’s easy to lose a sense of scale. The comparison widens the lens and grounds business organizations within the context of other human organizations e.g. the state. The comparison is also a setup for the next paragraph:

> One reason that’s significant: if many multinational companies actually were countries, they would be authoritarian dictatorships more ruthlessly efficient than any in existence. At many such companies, managers wield virtually unchecked power over subordinates and, thanks to modern technology, increasingly practice advanced techniques of monitoring and surveillance as well.

I read it as saying, “there are state economies that, even surrendering all of the goods and services they’ve created and provided in a year, cannot exchange them for the full market value of some companies.”

It’s a simple inert activity. One becomes functionally dormant for a period of time and returns to activity having done nothing material, in a literal sense.

There’s a real impotence at the heart of it.

Injuries per item picked is obviously the inferior of the two, and fairly poor on its own as well.

There’s nothing lost knowing more about a source of information. In most disciplines it’s actually a necessary step in interpreting text.

The user “causi” might as well delete it. The whole premise of their top-level comment was characterizing a “racial sensitivity guide” of which they have no adequate recollection, and cannot provide evidence that it even existed as they described.

A more cynical person might say they’ve injected a red herring into the thread, wasting others’ time.

> but I have to say that these "where is the source" posts are tiring and more often than not just a lazy attempt to destroy an argument with zero effort.

Reviewing the literature is separate and distinct from entering into argumentation.

Can’t speak for grandparent commentor, but I think they’re asking for the actual article which demonstrates the effects to which you’re alluding.

With all due respect, these hypothetical geo-locked colleagues probably don’t teach at Oxbridge and have multi-million dollar patent portfolios. Short of moving to the UK myself and getting a job in his lab, the only reason I was able to work alongside one of the many of these types of persons was because of remote-enabled work. Believe me, I get what you’re saying on a “gotcha” logical level (because of course you don’t know what exactly could have been), but on a practical reality level, there are some things that in-office just can’t do as easily. There are highly sophisticated fields where remote is simply the best way for minds to come together when bodies can’t or can’t be bothered to.

Idk, I joined a distributed startup out of school and it gave me access to some of the best in their field from across the world. I learned a lot and there’s little chance I’d have an opportunity to work with that variety of talent if we were all were geo-locked and compelled to go into a local office. Not saying my case is the case for everyone, but I am saying the near-absolutes you’re presenting should be heavily qualified.

Yep, this is an extended survey of interrelated concepts organized according to increasing complexity.

Similar to textbooks in the organizational principle, but differentiated in substance in that it assumes familiarity with the underlying topics and focuses on the relationships between the concepts rather than the concepts themselves. Good for practitioners I think.

I’ve observed simulations in VR that were compelling–I still remember parts of them well even now. However, these simulations were pre-recorded or preset and my range of inputs were limited to a set of menus from which I could select different options to simulate.

When I played various games with a wider range of input options, there was a noticeable latency, and the virtual environment did not fully capture my real or intended motions very well.

I think there are possibilities for VR in certain fields, but when it comes to arts and sciences like cooking and music, there are some aspects of the physical world that, to be captured in a compelling and useful way, will require significant progress or significant modification to extant VR hardware and software.

In cooking, there is a tangible, tactile difference in using a cleaver versus a pairing knife, and there is a tangible, tactile difference between cutting a head of kale, versus a large tuna. Likewise, there is a tangible, tactile component to interacting with instruments, and a large part of learning an instrument is developing not just the muscle memory of interacting with it, but developing the fine muscles involved as well.

In both cases, the learning requires the use of the specific instrument, and there is a genuine limitation in practical learning when the medium of instruction and the instrument of instruction is generalized to a set of what are essentially game controllers.

It seems to me the virtualization of physical interactions, without proper and necessary modifications to hardware and software, will leave VR bereft of the instructive capability it is relying on in order to be useful in this business/enterprise context in which it would like to be considered.

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Perhaps, but more germane here: it’s also being used by you to discredit real accomplishments with hypothetical ones.

I’m not discounting that you could be right, just that you could be right in a totally contrived scenario.

>I'm having trouble coming up with the right words to make my point. But, to me, this application says "my parents made me do a lot of shit" more than it says that this person is exceptional. What's this kid's resume if he's born in the hood to a single mom instead of a Boston suburb to an associate partner at IBM?

Try: speculative, imaginary, and unsubstantiated by evidence. Stereotypical, if you’re feeling adventurous.