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I came across a concept of “direct experience” with out going through normal meaning-making structures. Anyone have more details on this?

Eric, you are a smart guy. I think you should pay attention to the signal.

Multiple people have mentioned a similar thing. I have had a similar experience.

While it may be technically accurate that the “LTSE is open for business”

My expectation and others also seem to have had a similar expectation after reading the announcement was:

We can now purchase shares in companies that are listed on the LTSE. Having tried to get more info on companies listed on the LTSE, we are finding none.

“Open for business” is never defined.

It says

“Today, after months of booting up, I am thrilled to report that the Long-Term Stock Exchange has opened for business with a mission to support companies and investors who share a long-term vision.”

There are a few potential options:

1. oversight , without the realisation that people will assume the LTSE has shares listed on it which can be traded

2. Deliberately designed to lead people to think the LTSE has shares listed on it in order to test. Lean startup and all that.

On a other note long range planning and thinking is difficult, due to discounting and uncertainty. A massive impact can be had if more people could think Though multiple causal generations down.

Anyone have a remarkable 2, and have they been delivered? If unhappy can buy it from you.

I recall they said it would be shipping in August?

My slot says delivery in November.

I think the reason thinner later is harder to act to bring about, vs pie now is due to uncertainty. Thinner later is uncertain, hence I think our brains naturally discount the future goal, with a preference for the immediate.

what has worked for me is thinking in terms of positive choices, rather than goals or restrictions.

It’s not “I am not going to eat that cookie”

Rather it’s

“I am choosing to lead a healthier life..”

Social impact may be more sustainable. Think about a parasite that kills its host vs two organisms that exists in a symbiotic relationship.

I am not familiar with this terminology but it sound awfully like “means” and “ends” which I believe goes all the way back to Aristotle.

From the spec (8gb) it appears that NiFi was not needed. Were you co- locating zookeeper on the same nodes?

Also you say it needed to be run periodically? It’s supposed to be a long running service. If you need something that you can spin up and shutdown in a container or VM then it is probably not the solution.

Use it if you have high volumes of data you need to transport from A -> B. We run on a cluster with 256gb ram, 128 core per a node.

Ashby’s work on self-organisation [0] is a must read. I think it was he that defined the concept.

http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS396x/Computing/Ashby.pdf

It is only fair. If other businesses that are selling items which are “non essential “ and have to close, it would not be fair for amazon to continue since they will have an advantage. Here in South Africa regulations were put in place so online and physical both have the same regulations applied. Therefore online stores do not get undue advantage.

It forced the e-commerce companies to make quick changes and they were able to get it done in a few days. all non essential items cannot be added to your cart. Even Uber eats added functionality to get essential items delivered.

We need to realise that the internet/social media shutdowns will now become normal to “control” populations and ensure people cannot mobilise or protest. Governments are putting in place the methods to avoid protest. The problem with this if you have a maniac in charge it’s going to be a helluva thing to get theM out. The only way around this is to develop tools and solutions. Otherwise democracy as we know it is dead.

Actually I don’t think so. We need the social interaction, to belong, to be part of something larger. we are inherently social, and we inherently “mimic” and absorb from those around us.

Watch a child learn. My 1year old will watch me. Then try and do what I do. Children effectively “absorb” language from their environment- by watching and hearing us the parents speak.

Rather than giving up groups understand how the groups you belong to influence you and then apply some thinking. Take what works for you, reject what does not. Do it consciously.

“The most lasting and effective way to change your life is to change who you’re surrounded by.”

I think this is somewhat obvious. I have been hearing this from my dad since I was a kid. “Choose your friends wisely, they become your destiny”

I would not be surprised if both these books are referring to the same thing, from similar sources just using different ways to describe the same concept.

I have watched a talk by Yuval Noah Harari, and read a few blog posts about his idea of “fictions”. I have not read the book so I stand to be corrected.

comments below are related to “fiction”. This is a foundation of his thesis.

The concept of “fiction” as described in the Talk(and book?) appears to have a long history, but called by different names.

I have traced some of this thinking to early 1900’s, which itself appears to based on work from the 1700’s, and maybe even further back. It seems to be a common idea made palatable for mass consumption.

Personally I found the style very different between the expanse and the three body problem trilogy.

The expanse seems “lighter” or less hard. The last book, deaths end i found to be particularly “hard sci-fi”.

I have been waiting for the 3 body problem film. Last I checked it was delayed, with just the trailer released.

Will check out the wandering earth. Thanks.

This is a plot element in The Dark Forrest [0] book. Otherwise called the Dark Forrest theory [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest

[1] https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/the-dark-forest-theory...

I had this exact thought as I was reading this. I wonder if ML could be used to speed up the process and look for anomalies - both appearances and disappearances. Someone in our team did his PhD in machine vision. Will have a chat with him to hear his thoughts.

Anyone else have any thoughts? Also where could these images be accessed?

I think it goes much deeper than people choosing to work on fashionable problems. Here are my thoughts

1. The more defined and mature the problem space is, the more the assumptions that underpin that field are taken as a given.

2. These assumptions may become so deeply ingrained that people become effectively blind to the entire range of possibilities.

3. These assumptions frame how the problem/solution space is looked at. Therefore the solution space is constrained by the set of assumptions (about what the problem is , how to solve it, what to do)

4. These assumptions are recursive, in that they are contained within other assumptions. It is turtles all the way down. At some level, someone working in the space may not even understand what the core assumptions are. We have to have these assumptions though. See the next point.

5. The interesting thing about this is: The constraining of the problem/solution space is actually a positive. It enables co-ordination and incremental improvements and refinement. It allows people new to the domain to quickly get productive.

I like to think about it this way:

Picture yourself in a massive area that is pitch black. You are grasping around and can not see much. Someone figures out how to get a tiny fire started. With this tiny fire you get to see a little bit. Using this you can build a bigger fire illuminating more of the area (but still leaving the entire space unexplored). This eventual results in the ability to build a permanent light illuminating a specific corner of this space.

This specific space with light illuminating it becomes highly productive, people can do all sort of things. Like read etc. Yet, there are still areas left unexplored. The light cannot simply be taken across. It takes work, and it takes turning your back towards the current "lit" up space, and taking a step back into the dark. A scary thought for some.

5. Importantly: These assumptions have been inherited from the past. So they existed and were relevant at a specific point in time. They may or may not be relevant as of today. We would have to peel several layers to get to the core.

6. While 4 is a positive, it is also a negative. The idea/areas greatest strength (maturity, constant improvements, efficiencies) is also its greatest weakness (constraining the search space)

To take a step into the dark, is to turn your back to the lit up parts. You have to question the underlying assumptions and see if they are still relevant. If you discover an assumption about the world that is no longer accurate, then you found a new space to illuminate.

To put it in another way, to explore the dark is to shift your perspective on the problem/solution. It is to see with "new eyes". Initially it may be dark, but slowly with diligent work, and passion you could light up a completely new and novel area.

Here is my list, which excludes fiction. Mostly philosophy. I prefer to read fewer books but more deeply.

Currently reading:

Republic - Plato

Being and time - Heidegger

On the list to begin reading:

Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle

Recursivity and contingency - Yuk Hui

Wholeness and the implicate order or thought as a system - David Bohm

Finite and infinite games - James P Carse

Book lists:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31590496?shelf=to-read

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31590496?shelf=current...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31590496?shelf=read

Here is a list of systems thinking readings I posted before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19835208

Had a similar experience. The end was bitter sweet for me. Could not put them down till the end .

I am not from the states. both of the comments below indicate that Boeing is a strategic asset. Other comments also express similar sentiments.

What is the logic for this? why is this the case?

“They are a strategic asset to the United States far beyond their market value.”

”the airlines know that Boeing will never go under because the US government would (justifiably) never let that happen for strategic reasons“

Not surprised. This happened in South Africa.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-09-14-scorpio-a...

Thanks for pointing it out. I was not aware of that. Which university is this?

I managed to track down a manual from Stafford Beer for a system he developed. Fascinating stuff.

“These broader applications of cybernetics were an almost unequivocal failure.“

This is incorrect. There are no “cybernetics” department at universities, nor people with this title or role. However the concepts and ideas from cybernetics have infiltrated and influenced most areas of science. If you trace the ideas you will find them, you will recognize the DNA. The ideas from cybernetics + information theory was a paradigm shift in science at the time. I would say the cybernetic ideas were a victim of its own success. It became subsumed into many other disciplines by other names. It is like a snake eating its own tail. See the Ouroboros symbol [0] .

“Finally, because of his emphasis on control”

Here he is assuming control means too-down with a naive view of control. Control here could be replaced with regulation, direction, steering, facilitation. I would define control as the mechanism that allows a system to achieve it's purpose in an efficient and effective way. This definition says nothing about top-down. In actual fact there is a concept within cybernetics of "self-regulation" or "internal control". This means that control must be exhibited from within the system and not from an external party.

"Wiener could not foresee a technological world in which innovation and self-organization bubble up from the bottom rather than being imposed from the top."

Within the field of there is a ton of material on self-organization. This was one of the topics that was specifically investigated and written about at length. In particular how do you design for "self-organization"? Staford Beer and the organizational cybernetician were specifically focused on maximizing freedom, by balancing of both bottom up, and top-down feedback loops.

While Weiner did give the field the name i would hesitate in calling him the "father" of the field. Alot of the ideas were developed in collaboration with others, particularly at the Macy conferences [1]. The ideas have a long history and cybernetics has been heavily influenced by Ashby, Beer, Shannon, Maturana, Van Forester etc. Cybernetics itself born out of the tradition of operational research and systems engineering.

[0] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serpiente_alquimic...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences

Thanks for this. I used Slackware for many years starting around 95 to about 2000. Last year while moving house found a box of old CD-ROMs, with a copy of Slackware 3!

Could you provide more of an explanation and details/resources?

I am going to agree with sentiments posted by others. This has nothing to do with bailouts.

I have not read the report though having read the article one thing is clear all the solutions mentioned in the article are services provided by Mckinsey. So rather than being about a bailout it is positioning their services

I thought I had read this before. Here is the link to the original blog post from the institute that did the research.

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/where-how-park-your...