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I believe, however, we would do well as a civilization to study what The Church (capital letters on purpose) has done well in the last 2000 years, strip it of magic and veiled class dynamics, and rebuild it for the social good.

I work as a data analyst for a large social service government agency, and I always joke that we should hire the LDS (Mormon) church to run our social welfare programs. Well, sans God and some nasty sexism and LGBT hatefulness.

There must be a reason why not make lots of these on the coast. If someone knew how to run the numbers I would be very curious.

(SQL Server is the BEST! Outlook is the BEST! Everything can be done in Excel! Visual Source Safe is the BEST! Oh wait, TFS with a SQL Server back end is the BEST! )

Want motivation? Just saying.

Of course there is a Marxist angle to this: the relations of production in Capitalism are based on contracts between individuals, so we become steeped in this ideology from before we are even born and it just becomes "obvious", even though it makes even less sense than earth's seeming flatness.

Even the nasty, brutish, short competitive phase of human history was likely not competition between individuals but between groups whose unity and homogeneity was probably almost total. Anyone who was not one with his / her group was probably ostracized, then died shortly thereafter.

There should be a special name and place in hell for all the diet bullshit that goes through the culture like this.

Not that i follow my own advice or anything...

I think skilled biological actors use this overfitting to get really good at things without knowing how things actually work.

NN are still cool, though.

I wonder if the boatswain calls count as a whistled language?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_theory

The current system has the dual advantages of plausible deniability (anybody can, in theory, get into Stanford and become a master of the universe, but family income and culture radically boost your SATs and character), and it allows for new blood to enter the system more easily than when you needed a pedigree.

Also -- I read a chapter from his bigger book with pencil, often copying out, before I start a chapter in his little book.

I don't have any other resources -- I hate watching videos on the computer at night, no school that is convenient, etc. So sometimes I feel like I just have to get everything from his solutions b/c I don't get his lectures first.

Finally, ... My plan is to work through this book by the end of the year hopefully, then do Astrom and Murray's feedback book, then come back to Morin's red mechanics book. And then who knows -- that is probably 30 months out.

Lack of ability to imagine another's experience.

Naivete regarding power relationships, especially ones you participate in without knowing it.

Basic fallacy of assuming people are different than you when convenient.

No attempt, however lame, to support your off-the-cuff remark with anything.

Lack of introspection and self evaluation.

Stupid post, downvoted.

That's why I downvoted, in case you wonder.

I would agree that Eve might be a complete waste of time, along with soccer and chess and (my favorite) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, but I think the instinct to Play is very real and very productive, it should just be channeled intelligently.