Nic_Smith comments on (Virtual) Employment Open Thread - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Will_Newsome 23 September 2010 04:25AM

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Comment author: Nic_Smith 25 September 2010 06:21:02PM *  1 point [-]

As Will points out below, the use of first person is just for convenience. I'll take a stab at your questions, though:

Are you saying that you have the ability to understand all experience without having to participate in reality

Understanding all experience is beyond anyone's ability. That said, there's more to human experience than just traditional western employment (although that's fine as well).

are you saying that because you are young you want the easiest job you can find?

One could only hope that everyone, regardless of age, would want to be as productive as possible with as little effort as possible. This is efficiency. Efficiency is good.

Maybe you are saying that you want some small form of participation without having to experience anything? ... Maybe you are saying that you have experienced everything within your physical and social reality and have to find some form of work to feed yourself?

Where is this coming from? You seem to think everyone interested in alternative employment is a hikikomori. While I'd be hard pressed not to think there's a substantial minority here with social problems (based on the AQ scores talked about some months ago, for example), nonetheless you go too far -- this literally is the mistake of thinking that because all A are B, all B are A!

Also, the United States and many other countries are experiencing extreme unemployment and serious economic problems right now. It is utterly unsurprising that there's interest in finding other ways to make money in such an environment and says virtually nothing about any individual, except that they're not (yet?) extremely well-connected.

Is this supposed to be some new form of resume?

No. Although a "LessWork" resume database would be cool.

Comment author: adsenanim 29 September 2010 08:25:17AM -1 points [-]

|No. Although a "LessWork" resume database would be cool.

It might be.

|Understanding all experience is beyond anyone's ability. That said, there's more to human experience than just traditional western employment (although that's fine as well).

I don't think that understanding all experience is beyond ability, we are the product of evolution, experience defines us....

Comment author: adsenanim 29 September 2010 08:46:45AM *  0 points [-]

""Maybe you are saying that you want some small form of participation without having to experience anything? ... Maybe you are saying that you have experienced everything within your physical and social reality and have to find some form of work to feed yourself?""

"Where is this coming from? You seem to think everyone interested in alternative employment is a hikikomori. While I'd be hard pressed not to think there's a substantial minority here with social problems (based on the AQ scores talked about some months ago, for example), nonetheless you go too far -- this literally is the mistake of thinking that because all A are B, all B are A!"

The classical representation is that if A=B then B=A

Of course this is just a simple relation.

A can be made of many parts; B can be made of many parts.

forgive me, I havn't got the whole making quotes thing....