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When most people had no or very little education, and some people had access to private tutors is it surprise some of them end up exceptional?

I mean you are talking about pre internet era and era where people were relatively less knowledgeable. 

Today private tutoring still gives edge anyways. As you can personalize the needs of pupils. 

I cannot imagine someone having several private tutors since childhood and not being exceptional in some regard or above average at least in knowledge if not intellect. 

When driving good drivers are invisible to us.

Bad drivers are seemingly everywhere. 
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If people judge what they judge is their own knowledge they are familiar with, against what they see as most critical failing of people around.

People who are wrong are alien to us. 

People who are right and agree with us don't make us emotional. 

SO they are not that obvious. 

As far as observations go, small talk from my point of view is to see other peoples attitudes, but information value of small talks drops after a while as everything was said. 

Small talk does not mean people will like you though or know you better or necessarily lead to anything good. It just means that if by chance someone shares your attitudes you might bond over the fact you have same attitudes and then conversation leads to better chance of having something more meaningful to say. 

However people are from different walks of life often times live different lives and have different habits. 

Why should people with "power saving mode" be sick?

If you were farmer in Northern climate and you had low crop yield it could mean starving whole winter with little food. Would exercising help then?

If you were in Southern climate and worked in heat all the time, and burned out all your calories would you call it smart? What if a flood came on the Nile and took your crop.

So I would argue laziness is a good survival strategy. Helps people stop from killing themselves by overworking.

On flip side body builds equilibrium. If person exercises since childhood exe... (read more)

I have cheated on tests.

Not very successfully. 

The problem is sometimes you actually learn more by cheating, because making strategies on how to cheat actually makes you remember more.

Its actually creative activity.

Also sometimes cheating actually made me able to remember the stuff more as it gave me a chance.

On other hand the long term benefits of cheating are tiny. 

Obviously the best strategy is to learn, cheating or not.

The key important thing is whether cheating is viable strategy in real life.

On other hand cheating is kind of ambiguous conce... (read more)

I  started writing down things I am tracking.

I actually never realized I am tracking so many things.

The problem and issue is, I rarely remember or know what to do with the tracked information.

Lets say I am trying to be engaging and have a discussion.

There could be a number of things to track, from motives, meanings, or specific reasons something is said.

Other thing to track is filling in the gaps. Lets say someone says something incomplete, one should when engaged fill in the gaps and ask question or find a way to follow up.

Another thing is to know yo... (read more)

On account of sounding dumb, but needing to point out, progress is set by baseline of some sort.

However qualitatively our society does live differently in many ways.

Most things in the past required huge time investment, there was low security for life, and generally the product be it crops, or food, were small compared to these days.

So the constraints people dealt with were huge.

Its fallacy though to think we don't have the exact same issues in today's world.

We have washing machines and microwaves and tools that speed things up so we can do the more progre... (read more)

To add - undercutting the human demographic pyramid has serious social drawback. Capital grows on influx of human population. Unfortunately the idea that human demographic growth is necessary is probably bias based around human psychology and large capital, that maintains its relevance merely by generating profit. If we neglect these rather stupid ideas, we are left with infinite sea of positive options where less population is always, better. We are not few. We are billions.

There are good founders with few relationships able to raise upwards of half a million as the first investment in ideas that seem impossibly difficult to monetize. With decent connections, you can pocket upwards of 10 million to start a company that seems hot.

You can learn programming in 3-12 months and earn 6 figures with low taxes working remotely in a few years. You can make bank by doing the most niche and easy to learn of jobs as long as you know how to follow the market. You can probably make it even if you just follow your nose and invest in trends

What ever the case I am often exhausted, when dealing with such issues.

Good post though.

For instance certain high pitch sounds are terrible for my ears. Makes me lose focus, and makes my eyes close.

Its so bad, that I literally feel as though there is pain in my mind.

Schema? Or auditory thing? 

It never happens with other sounds, just with this pitch. 

Same problem with focus. 

I can clearly be aware how the little tribes in my mind come together to defeat the invaders, but once the battle is over they part ways, and go back, or if they have to ... (read more)

Then what is the difference between belief and assumption in our mental maps.

What about imagination? Is that belief or assumption or in-congruent map of reality. 

Can imagination be part of mental processing without making us wrong about reality.

For instance, if I imagine that all buses in my city are blue, though they are red, can I then walk around with this model of reality in my head without a false belief? After all its just imagination?

Or is this model going to corrupt my thinking as I walk about thinking it, knowing full well its not true.

Furthe... (read more)

Iran is powerful, but Israel is tiny country that can be easily defeated in other ways. 

Nukes are a flex. They cannot be used. If they do use them they might kill more people than just the ones they don't like. Biological weapons are taboo also, but are lot easier to use and can be used to the same effect without much trouble.

So you might ask if Iran is really "saying destroy Israel" do they mean" it "and acting on it or are they just working on having more power?

I don't think Iran can use nukes. Nor will they, nor will they have the ability to deploy... (read more)

Framework for this could be looking for AI that is useful, by definition smarter than human. 

The foundation is once the AI takes off, it needs to land.

When this take off and landing happens, its the job of humans, to know whether the act of AI actually did anything positive. 

The problem is we as humans seem not have models and perfect measurements. 

For instance if AI does something in economy, what exactly makes us believe, what it did was correct? 

How can we know it was good? 

Even economist struggle to put real life measurements i... (read more)

I do agree, and I think relation to information and authority are forged in real world, where sometimes, the bottom line is based on might makes right.

Unfortunately kids are often right, but parents have higher agency. 

The same goes for teachers. 

So is it really that surprising we are a world of adults who aim to have higher agency than the other person?

We have been taught that authority stems mostly from force, not smarts. 

By agency I mean you overpower the person, but not cooperate. 

A general does not have to be paradoxically smarter ... (read more)

All this seems to suggest that in competitive game people aim to get as much money as possible in every decision?

The more "primitive" people just don't know the value of money. 

Its like giving candy to someone who has very little utility for it. 

Cooperation suggests merely that some people might have more built up tolerance for loss. 

It does not seem to indicate any lack of greed. 

Complicated language.

In Star Trek there is precisely this type of episode.

It ends with Barclay saying "Computer, end simulation!".

Essentially Data invites the ship computer to create a program that has the ability to outwit Data in order to create a veritable challenge, as opposed Data winning with few quick computations.

So the holodeck creates an adversary that has to be smarter than an android that already has a computer mind.

Computer vs Computer. 

Obviously the holodeck is successful. 

This means the whole crew has to find a way to trick the hol... (read more)