BOTTOM UP, TOP DOWN Sometimes operational before descriptive, and sometimes descriptive before operational. by Dan Fodor I sometimes get ‘operational’ before I get ‘descriptive’ : I can spend hours running “simulations” of the math problem I’m trying to solve in my head (simple ex: visualize a cube to deduce its properties). This gets problematic if I forget to eat or forego attention to various mundane details around me. Anyway, the point is, when getting descriptive (or when passing from operational to descriptive), I need the lenience to speak vaguely (even if only to myself) before I can speak clearly.I suspect this is true for any new concept. Something must first be thought of before it can be spoken of. (a subtle bit of genius)
BOTTOM UP, TOP DOWN Sometimes operational before descriptive, and sometimes descriptive before operational. by Dan Fodor I sometimes get ‘operational’ before I get ‘descriptive’ : I can spend hours running “simulations” of the math problem I’m trying to solve in my head (simple ex: visualize a cube to deduce its properties). This gets problematic if I forget to eat or forego attention to various mundane details around me. Anyway, the point is, when getting descriptive (or when passing from operational to descriptive), I need the lenience to speak vaguely (even if only to myself) before I can speak clearly.I suspect this is true for any new concept. Something must first be thought of before it can be spoken of. (a subtle bit of genius)
—“Talking of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which book in your opinion defines him as a thinker?”–Marsden Katana I think everything you need to know is in Black Swan and he’s slowly moving my direction (involuntary warranty) versus voluntary “skin in the game”, through each of his books. I think he finally figured out that the data necessary to produce outliers is more expensive to obtain than the returns, and so he’s started to come around to legal restraint rather than solving the quantitative problem. In other words, he’s moved to falsification rather than justification.
—“Talking of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which book in your opinion defines him as a thinker?”–Marsden Katana I think everything you need to know is in Black Swan and he’s slowly moving my direction (involuntary warranty) versus voluntary “skin in the game”, through each of his books. I think he finally figured out that the data necessary to produce outliers is more expensive to obtain than the returns, and so he’s started to come around to legal restraint rather than solving the quantitative problem. In other words, he’s moved to falsification rather than justification.
by Bill Joslin I think the Propertarian legal frames can be explained simply. But the difficulty in simplistic explanations pertains to constraining interpretation (free association) which dissolves our value on testimony as a demanding moral good. We can habituate that via law and grounded parables (parables grounded in reality)) (CURT: If you can disassemble that, it’s spot on.)
by Bill Joslin I think the Propertarian legal frames can be explained simply. But the difficulty in simplistic explanations pertains to constraining interpretation (free association) which dissolves our value on testimony as a demanding moral good. We can habituate that via law and grounded parables (parables grounded in reality)) (CURT: If you can disassemble that, it’s spot on.)
by Zachary Miller Relationships between persons are the sources of a person’s duties. A parent has duties to a child by virtue of their natural relationship to one another. And the adult is identified as a parent by virtue of their duties to the child, as people are rather defined by their duties to others. A debtor similarly has duties to a creditor by virtue of their relationship in contract. And the debtor is defined by his duty to pay his debts. And a tortfeasor has duties to his victim by virtue of their relationship in tort. And the tortfeasor is defined by his duty to make restitution.
by Zachary Miller Relationships between persons are the sources of a person’s duties. A parent has duties to a child by virtue of their natural relationship to one another. And the adult is identified as a parent by virtue of their duties to the child, as people are rather defined by their duties to others. A debtor similarly has duties to a creditor by virtue of their relationship in contract. And the debtor is defined by his duty to pay his debts. And a tortfeasor has duties to his victim by virtue of their relationship in tort. And the tortfeasor is defined by his duty to make restitution.