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I love the landmine metaphor - it blows up in your face and it's left over from some ancient war.
To prevent lines from being merged together, add two spaces at the end of each one.
That's so...typewriter.
Thanks.
Also, consider the possibility that it is you who is dumb, ignorant, and making mistakes.
I don't consider it, I assume it.
But "dumb" and "ignorant" are not points on a line, they are relative positions.
To quote this bloke at a climbing gym I used to frequent "We all suck at our own level".
We demand complete rigour from all forms of levity! The unexamined joke is not worth joking!
Mickey Mouse is dead Got kicked in the head Cause people got too serious They planned out what they said They couldn't take the fantasy They tried to accept reality Analyzed the laughs Cause pleasure comes in halves The purity of comedy They had to take it seriously Changed the words around Tried to make it look profound ...
--Sub Hum Ans, "Mickey Mouse is Dead"
Better for whom? I'd really like my rival countries to have ethical military leaders, but maybe I prefer my own country's military leaders to be ruthless.
Is ruthlessness necessarily unethical in a military leader?
Sometimes compassion is a sharp sword.
In response to
Morality is Awesome
Morality needs a concept of awfulness as well as awesomeness. In the depths of hell, good things are not an option and therefore not a consideration, but there are still choices to be made.
I'm sigquoting that if you don't mind.
Not that that means anything anymore, but I'm old school that way.
Do you mean lossy or lossless compression? If you mean lossy compression then that is precisely Szabo's point.
On the other hand, if you mean lossless, then if you had some way to losslessly compress a brain, this would only work if you were the only one with this compression scheme, since otherwise other people would apply it to their own brains and use the freed space to store more information.
Lossless compression is simply overlaying redundant patterns.
For example you could easily compress 1000 straight male brains by overlaying all the bits concerned with breasts, motorcycles and guns. Well, breasts anyway, some males don't like motorcycles.
The sentiment is correct (diligence may be more important than brilliance) but I think "all amusements and other employments" might be too absolute an imperative for most people to even try to live by. Most people will break down if they try to work too hard for too long, and changes of activity can be very important in keeping people fresh.
I think that both you and Mr. Franklin are correct.
To wreak great changes one must stay focused and work diligently on one's goal. One needn't eliminate all pleasures from life, but I think you'll find that very, very few people can have a serious hobby and a world changing vocation.
Most of us of "tolerable" abilities cannot maintain the kind of focus and purity of dedication required. That is why the world changes as little as it does. If everyone, as an example who was to the right of center on the IQ curve could make great changes etc., then "great" would be redefined upwards (if most people could run a 10 second 100 meter, Mr. Bolt would only be a little special).
Further more...Oooohh...shiny....
Puting whenever you think in terms of fights don't do a good job. People come rapid with ferocious comments.
If you're a football (American, not Eurasian) coach you're routinely going to frame your aphorisms in terms of battles, or "fights" as you put it.
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I don't see how you could perform a meaningful calculation without presuming which system is actually right. Who wants an efficient programme that yields the wrong results?
That very much depends on who benefits from those wrong results.