Your purpose as is the purpose of every other life form is to perpetuate your genes by the capture of differences in rates of entropy and to expend it as waste heat. That’s your purpose. You perpetuate the temporary concentration of energy as a means of producing higher returns on the concentration of energy.
Our ability to think and remember evolved for very simple reasons: creatures that can empathize with intent, imitate, and cooperate without violating reciprocity, can, through the cooperateive concentration of energy on high returns, produce greater caloric capture than any other evolutionary solution the universe has yet discovered by trial and error.
However, since self awareness has been a byproduct of that evolutionary innovation, and since along with that self awareness is the need to be valued by (useful to others) because otherwise we would have less incentive to cooperate and produce outsized returns – you need to find some means of surviving while at the same time either feeling not-harmful, useful if possible, and contributory if possible, and dramatically contributory if possible, because this is what status signals and fulfillment refer to.
Most unsatisfied (unfulfilled) people are unwilling to or unable to admit their low potential, low value, low status, and low contribution and will not spend the effort to obtain mediocre returns suited to their abilities.
hence why charity is so attractive and useful – it takes very little effort to produce outsized cooperative returns for those of even less value to others than you are.
This chain of providing value to those less valuable to than you are is how the entire in-class, and cross-class, social, economic, political, and military hierarchy manages to function given that some of us are unfit, unattractive, have undesirable personalities, and are stupid, are from bad families, and bad groups – and some of us are fit, attractive, have desirable personalities, are intelligent and from good families and groups.
Come to terms with your status and ability and serve those who need your service. This is why christians are so disproportionately happy and christian civilizations are so disproportionately productive: we are mercilness with producing purely empirical status signals. everyone else tries to fake them.
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Your Purpose? Let Me Tell You…
Your purpose as is the purpose of every other life form is to perpetuate your genes by the capture of differences in rates of entropy and to expend it as waste heat. That’s your purpose. You perpetuate the temporary concentration of energy as a means of producing higher returns on the concentration of energy. Our ability to think and remember evolved for very simple reasons: creatures that can empathize with intent, imitate, and cooperate without violating reciprocity, can, through the cooperateive concentration of energy on high returns, produce greater caloric capture than any other evolutionary solution the universe has yet discovered by trial and error. However, since self awareness has been a byproduct of that evolutionary innovation, and since along with that self awareness is the need to be valued by (useful to others) because otherwise we would have less incentive to cooperate and produce outsized returns – you need to find some means of surviving while at the same time either feeling not-harmful, useful if possible, and contributory if possible, and dramatically contributory if possible, because this is what status signals and fulfillment refer to. Most unsatisfied (unfulfilled) people are unwilling to or unable to admit their low potential, low value, low status, and low contribution and will not spend the effort to obtain mediocre returns suited to their abilities. hence why charity is so attractive and useful – it takes very little effort to produce outsized cooperative returns for those of even less value to others than you are. This chain of providing value to those less valuable to than you are is how the entire in-class, and cross-class, social, economic, political, and military hierarchy manages to function given that some of us are unfit, unattractive, have undesirable personalities, and are stupid, are from bad families, and bad groups – and some of us are fit, attractive, have desirable personalities, are intelligent and from good families and groups. Come to terms with your status and ability and serve those who need your service. This is why christians are so disproportionately happy and christian civilizations are so disproportionately productive: we are mercilness with producing purely empirical status signals. everyone else tries to fake them. -
YOUR PURPOSE? LET ME TELL YOU… Your purpose as is the purpose of every other l
YOUR PURPOSE? LET ME TELL YOU…
Your purpose as is the purpose of every other life form is to perpetuate your genes by the capture of differences in rates of entropy and to expend it as waste heat. That’s your purpose. You perpetuate the temporary concentration of energy as a means of producing higher returns on the concentration of energy.
Our ability to think and remember evolved for very simple reasons: creatures that can empathize with intent, imitate, and cooperate without violating reciprocity, can, through the cooperateive concentration of energy on high returns, produce greater caloric capture than any other evolutionary solution the universe has yet discovered by trial and error.
However, since self awareness has been a byproduct of that evolutionary innovation, and since along with that self awareness is the need to be valued by (useful to others) because otherwise we would have less incentive to cooperate and produce outsized returns – you need to find some means of surviving while at the same time either feeling not-harmful, useful if possible, and contributory if possible, and dramatically contributory if possible, because this is what status signals and fulfillment refer to.
Most unsatisfied (unfulfilled) people are unwilling to or unable to admit their low potential, low value, low status, and low contribution and will not spend the effort to obtain mediocre returns suited to their abilities.
hence why charity is so attractive and useful – it takes very little effort to produce outsized cooperative returns for those of even less value to others than you are.
This chain of providing value to those less valuable to than you are is how the entire in-class, and cross-class, social, economic, political, and military hierarchy manages to function given that some of us are unfit, unattractive, have undesirable personalities, and are stupid, are from bad families, and bad groups – and some of us are fit, attractive, have desirable personalities, are intelligent and from good families and groups.
Come to terms with your status and ability and serve those who need your service. This is why christians are so disproportionately happy and christian civilizations are so disproportionately productive: we are mercilness with producing purely empirical status signals. everyone else tries to fake them.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-13 10:05:00 UTC
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Our Only Asset Is Time. Poverty Didn’t Evolve. Wealth Did.
Poverty didn’t evolve, wealth and money evolved. Poverty is merely a relative assessment of one’s ability to consume. Hence why indigenous peoples commit suicide in droves once aware of their relative condition. That relative condition is poverty. However, it can only be known to be poverty once one is aware of a relative condition. Prosperity (wealth) evolved from the division of labor. Money of some kind (commodities) is necessary to remove frictions to the coincidence of wants in a division of labor. Prices are necessary to allow planning, complex production of multi-part products and services, credit, and debt. Non-Commodity Money is necessary to reduce frictions to the coincidence of wants, that limits the expansion of trade. ****Our only asset is time. We are not wealthier than cavemen. We have simply made all goods, services, and information cheaper, through the division of knowledge and labor using the information system we call money and prices. This is the most important lesson of economics. All understanding of wealth exists in this one paragraph.**** -
Our Only Asset Is Time. Poverty Didn’t Evolve. Wealth Did.
Poverty didn’t evolve, wealth and money evolved. Poverty is merely a relative assessment of one’s ability to consume. Hence why indigenous peoples commit suicide in droves once aware of their relative condition. That relative condition is poverty. However, it can only be known to be poverty once one is aware of a relative condition. Prosperity (wealth) evolved from the division of labor. Money of some kind (commodities) is necessary to remove frictions to the coincidence of wants in a division of labor. Prices are necessary to allow planning, complex production of multi-part products and services, credit, and debt. Non-Commodity Money is necessary to reduce frictions to the coincidence of wants, that limits the expansion of trade. ****Our only asset is time. We are not wealthier than cavemen. We have simply made all goods, services, and information cheaper, through the division of knowledge and labor using the information system we call money and prices. This is the most important lesson of economics. All understanding of wealth exists in this one paragraph.**** -
OUR ONLY ASSET IS TIME. POVERTY DIDN’T EVOLVE. WEALTH DID. Poverty didn’t evolve
OUR ONLY ASSET IS TIME. POVERTY DIDN’T EVOLVE. WEALTH DID.
Poverty didn’t evolve, wealth and money evolved.
Poverty is merely a relative assessment of one’s ability to consume.
Hence why indigenous peoples commit suicide in droves once aware of their relative condition.
That relative condition is poverty.
However, it can only be known to be poverty once one is aware of a relative condition.
Prosperity (wealth) evolved from the division of labor.
Money of some kind (commodities) is necessary to remove frictions to the coincidence of wants in a division of labor.
Prices are necessary to allow planning, complex production of multi-part products and services, credit, and debt.
Non-Commodity Money is necessary to reduce frictions to the coincidence of wants, that limits the expansion of trade.
****Our only asset is time. We are not wealthier than cavemen. We have simply made all goods, services, and information cheaper, through the division of knowledge and labor using the information system we call money and prices. This is the most important lesson of economics. All understanding of wealth exists in this one paragraph.****
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-13 09:31:00 UTC
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What Are The 7 Deadly Sins Of Programming?
A very different take – but I won’t express it until the end:
My generation was taught to sketch, then pseudocode (to quickly write in comments), then to write the code. To make it work, make it work well, make it rock solid and elegant. This evolutionary cycle allows you to incrementally iterate (evolve) your thinking. We started with assembly language and then worked upward.
Generally people are drawn to process heavy(logical) or interface heavy (psychological) problems and we tend to self-sort into those specialties.
There is a sort of class system to programming just as there is in building construction, and each ‘class’ has different needs. I have always preferred ‘stringy’ (LISP-y) languages. Some people prefer mathematical languages, and some operational languages.
So as in all fields we have Math > Operational > Verbal disciplines, and in our case, patterns, languages and tools.
I suggest a different criteria for the judgement of code:
1 – Code should be efficient to scan, then read.
2 – Code should be literary rather than symbolic whenever possible.
3 – When symbolic is necessary for performance or other reasons, it should be well commented.
4 – It should tolerate (survive) changes and produce informative errors rather than produce variations in outputs.Most of us suffer from the long learning curve of trying to reduce to intuition the vast subtle variations in problems, patterns, data structures, languages, and operating systems. And we want something we can scan so that we preserve short term memory for the problem we are holding in mind. This reduction to intuition occurs only through repetition.
All old programmers are the same. All new programmers are different.
New programmers are cheaper and there are plenty of them on the market.
Most problems we talk about are merely the process of turning young/new programmers into older/old programmers by a process of disciplined daily trial and error.Some people are very good and very fast from the beginning (the more mathematically inclined have superior short term memories, and lower frustration budgets, and lower costs of context change.) Some of us are the opposite. In other words, some people craft precise bricks and build with them, and others create designs and craft the bricks that fit.
The net result is this: Are you writing for yourself in the moment? Yourself in the future? Or are you writing for the poor soul who has to maintain or change it?
The ethics of programming is the same as international ethics of travel: if you wouldn’t say or do it in front of your mother, then don’t.
Its the silver rule of ethics: If you wouldn’t want someone to do it to you, then don’t.
When we code we often think (choose) using a little egoistic set of criteria. The solution is to think with ethical criteria because this forces us to self monitor the excuses we make out of personal convenience.
The problem is that we are all bound by time, energy, and mental exhaustion in a field requiring extraordinary mental discipline. A sort of economy.
In other words – the problem of programming is ethical and moral not technical.
Just like every other field. In the long term the ethical solution in all fields wins.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-7-deadly-sins-of-programming
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What Are The 7 Deadly Sins Of Programming?
A very different take – but I won’t express it until the end:
My generation was taught to sketch, then pseudocode (to quickly write in comments), then to write the code. To make it work, make it work well, make it rock solid and elegant. This evolutionary cycle allows you to incrementally iterate (evolve) your thinking. We started with assembly language and then worked upward.
Generally people are drawn to process heavy(logical) or interface heavy (psychological) problems and we tend to self-sort into those specialties.
There is a sort of class system to programming just as there is in building construction, and each ‘class’ has different needs. I have always preferred ‘stringy’ (LISP-y) languages. Some people prefer mathematical languages, and some operational languages.
So as in all fields we have Math > Operational > Verbal disciplines, and in our case, patterns, languages and tools.
I suggest a different criteria for the judgement of code:
1 – Code should be efficient to scan, then read.
2 – Code should be literary rather than symbolic whenever possible.
3 – When symbolic is necessary for performance or other reasons, it should be well commented.
4 – It should tolerate (survive) changes and produce informative errors rather than produce variations in outputs.Most of us suffer from the long learning curve of trying to reduce to intuition the vast subtle variations in problems, patterns, data structures, languages, and operating systems. And we want something we can scan so that we preserve short term memory for the problem we are holding in mind. This reduction to intuition occurs only through repetition.
All old programmers are the same. All new programmers are different.
New programmers are cheaper and there are plenty of them on the market.
Most problems we talk about are merely the process of turning young/new programmers into older/old programmers by a process of disciplined daily trial and error.Some people are very good and very fast from the beginning (the more mathematically inclined have superior short term memories, and lower frustration budgets, and lower costs of context change.) Some of us are the opposite. In other words, some people craft precise bricks and build with them, and others create designs and craft the bricks that fit.
The net result is this: Are you writing for yourself in the moment? Yourself in the future? Or are you writing for the poor soul who has to maintain or change it?
The ethics of programming is the same as international ethics of travel: if you wouldn’t say or do it in front of your mother, then don’t.
Its the silver rule of ethics: If you wouldn’t want someone to do it to you, then don’t.
When we code we often think (choose) using a little egoistic set of criteria. The solution is to think with ethical criteria because this forces us to self monitor the excuses we make out of personal convenience.
The problem is that we are all bound by time, energy, and mental exhaustion in a field requiring extraordinary mental discipline. A sort of economy.
In other words – the problem of programming is ethical and moral not technical.
Just like every other field. In the long term the ethical solution in all fields wins.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-7-deadly-sins-of-programming
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Westerners were naturalists and empiricists into prehistory for the simple reaso
Westerners were naturalists and empiricists into prehistory for the simple reason that western civilization’s first organizing principle is the militia and the sovereignty that a militia grants and requires of each individual in it.
The militia was necessary on the vast european plain for the simple reason that no flood river valleys with centralized organization of irrigation existed as did in the south east, india, and far east, wherein a small force could seek rents upon agrarian production, centralize capital, and create parasitic central governments and empires – first by priests, secondly by warriors, and third by their merger.
Instead, westerners had horses, cattle, pigs, crops, and good arable land, and production remained distributed – and because of that distribution, lower populations, but higher eugenic evolution (suppression of underclass reproduction.)
So, possessed of small numbers, but horse, metalsmithing, and the wheel, they compensated for inferior numbers with technology, risk-taking, and maneuver – adaptation to changes.
And since metal, wheel, and horse were expensive, they were supplied by families (knights were armored by families right up thru and after the crusades – only gunpowder changed the financing. It became cheap to field soldiers.)
Such a voluntary militia requires sovereignty. The only way differences in sovereignty can be resolved is by reciprocity, and the only possible test of reciprocity is tort.
In other words, the western common law began and remains empirical. Not authoritarian, and not ideal, and not supernatural. But purely empirical and reciprocal. And it was this first organizing principle that caused the evolution of reason, mathematics, engineering, stoicism, greek and roman law, empiricism, and finally science. Because debate was forever necessary. The growth of commerce only exacerbated and reinforced this behavior.
The Abrahamic Dark Age of Christianity/Judaism/Islam is over, and western people have returned to their original traditions. The traditions by which they dragged themselves out of the ignorance, superstition, poverty, hard labor, starvation, disease, infant mortality and early death.
There is nothing good in christianity that was not there before it. And there is nothing bad in christianity that was not put there to undermine the western aristocracy so that the eastern empire could rule a land of the ignorant as had the despots done time immemorial in the fertile crescent.
In other words: were were always empirical, and we have returned to type.
The lies of priests no longer fall on illiterate ears.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-12 19:07:00 UTC
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Westerners were naturalists and empiricists into prehistory for the simple reaso
Westerners were naturalists and empiricists into prehistory for the simple reason that western civilization’s first organizing principle is the militia and the sovereignty that a militia grants and requires of each individual in it. The militia was necessary on the vast european plain for the simple reason that no flood river valleys with centralized organization of irrigation existed as did in the south east, india, and far east, wherein a small force could seek rents upon agrarian production, centralize capital, and create parasitic central governments and empires – first by priests, secondly by warriors, and third by their merger. Instead, westerners had horses, cattle, pigs, crops, and good arable land, and production remained distributed – and because of that distribution, lower populations, but higher eugenic evolution (suppression of underclass reproduction.) So, possessed of small numbers, but horse, metalsmithing, and the wheel, they compensated for inferior numbers with technology, risk-taking, and maneuver – adaptation to changes. And since metal, wheel, and horse were expensive, they were supplied by families (knights were armored by families right up thru and after the crusades – only gunpowder changed the financing. It became cheap to field soldiers.) Such a voluntary militia requires sovereignty. The only way differences in sovereignty can be resolved is by reciprocity, and the only possible test of reciprocity is tort. In other words, the western common law began and remains empirical. Not authoritarian, and not ideal, and not supernatural. But purely empirical and reciprocal. And it was this first organizing principle that caused the evolution of reason, mathematics, engineering, stoicism, greek and roman law, empiricism, and finally science. Because debate was forever necessary. The growth of commerce only exacerbated and reinforced this behavior. The Abrahamic Dark Age of Christianity/Judaism/Islam is over, and western people have returned to their original traditions. The traditions by which they dragged themselves out of the ignorance, superstition, poverty, hard labor, starvation, disease, infant mortality and early death. There is nothing good in christianity that was not there before it. And there is nothing bad in christianity that was not put there to undermine the western aristocracy so that the eastern empire could rule a land of the ignorant as had the despots done time immemorial in the fertile crescent. In other words: were were always empirical, and we have returned to type. The lies of priests no longer fall on illiterate ears.