I think the ‘point’ of the ship of thesius is often missed. Grouping things together to be one entity is thought process done in our brains for ease of understanding, but it doesn’t exist in the real world.
I think the ship of thesius thought experiment is there to show that there are times where things can’t be distinctly grouped. When things don’t fit nicely into groups we shouldn’t force them, but abandon the that grouping as it isn’t applicable to the situation.
From a climate perspective that’s just how the math works out, nothing to do with identity. People born before 1970 (commonly called the Boomers) will avoid the main consequences of climate change due to the delay between action and result and the median life expectency.
Enlightened us please.
How do you handle disputes?
I recently lost a close friend also. It’s hard to fathom how life can go on after tragedy, but it flows on all around you. Just people going about their day unaware of the immense vacuum where there was once joy and warmth and comfort. It’s a terrible experience, I’m so sorry for your loss.
Now, bring this concept into a potential conflict between the US and China. China has ~200x the ship building capacity as the US.
In WWII it’s generally agreed that the NAZIs had better, more sophisticated weapons. The US and Soviets just built more which ended up being a winning strategy.
In both the Ukrainian and Iran theatres, mass produced cheaper drones have proven an effective strategy against sophisticated anti-air defenses.
My point is that in real conflicts it seems manufacturing quantity is more important than technological superiority. Today, the US boasts of its weapons superiority, but China’s manufacturing capacity far exceeds the US. If it really came to (non nuke flinging) war between the two, it seems China has the advantage.
I’ll always recognize the hiphopopotomus. His lyrics are bottomless.
The final conclusion of the books is far more satisfying than the show ending. Other than that, I completely agree.
Thanks Obama
Is it a fractal?
I work at a large well established company. I get so many legitimate emails from outside our domain that I am required to click on. Performance reviews, company surveys, corporate training…
Then they wonder why people click fishing links. Bugs the crap out of me. I’m not going to remember the exact domain of the survey company we use, what are you crazy?
Middle class is such a stupid term. It doesn’t mean anything, almost everyone in society considers themselves middle class. It is only useful because of that self identification, so a politician can say “I’m helping the middle class” and 95% of society thinks the politician cares about them.
This is great advice, but doesn’t work for everyone. I’ve found the snowflake method gives me more motivation.
It works by identifying the core element of the story and expanding with ever more detail. I prefer this method because if you get an idea in your head you can start writing about the most exciting things first. Flush out cool ideas first and it encourages iterative working so even if your first couple passes are garbage (as they will be) you get to refine them as you mull things over in your head.
https://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/
It’s wild how much history I learn from you, PJ. Thank you for your service.
There’s an awesome British rap song called Don’t Mug Yourself.
The purpose of a system is the desired outcome. Other results are byproducts. The designed purpose is user engagement. The byproduct is the harm to society.
The purpose of a sewer system is to remove waste water from homes. The byproduct can be the smell coming from storm drains. You wouldn’t say the purpose of a sewer system is to make storm drains smell.
I really don’t think it’s “on purpose” trying to push a narrative. I think it’s “on purpose” the algorithm sees that displaying videos #9342 and #667 to new audiences tends to result in the new viewer watching more videos over time.
It’s incidental that those videos are bad for society. If human behavior taught the algorithm high quality educational videos keeps audiences engaged longer this would be a non-issue.
This has always been strange to me. I’m assuming you live in North America. The honey bee is not native here. They are therefore an invasive species, but one that even environmentalists are fine with.
I don’t know enough about the whole thing to have an opinion different than the norm, so I support you providing a habitat for honey bees. It just confuses me.
All honey bees are nectarivorous pollinators native to mainland Afro-Eurasia,[13][14] but human migrations and colonizations to the New World since the Age of Discovery have been responsible for the introduction of multiple subspecies of the western honey bee into South America (early 16th century), North America (early 17th century) and Australia (early 19th century), resulting in the current cosmopolitan distribution of honey bees in all continents except Antarctica.[13]
China soaked up all the soft power the US had with programs like USAID. This administration has done reputational damage that took about a century to build, and will likely take as long to rebuild.