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2021-07-07 12:53 pm

015: Reward and Punishment

It strikes me that one of the reasons it took me so long to understand what generosity really is and why it works from a natural systems perspective is that it’s hard to see how people are rewarded or punished within the system for their actions—especially for a child. If I get a Christmas present, that looks suspiciously like a reward, so I must be doing fine. No need to give, I just lost time and money. Meanwhile all around me, I can see jerks thriving and nice people getting shafted. Blind Luck meddles both ways, and Lady Justice peeks out from under the blindfold.Read more... )
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2021-03-24 02:22 pm

003: Goalies and Logical Types

The best cure for the bad habit of mistaking a map with the territory is to find another map of the same territory that contradicts the first, and to understand how both can be accurate. It’s when we cross-reference the two that the dogma breaks down and the details come through. Having more or less trashed the goal-oriented mindset in favor of process, I’m now going to play goalie for the former. So: 1) Are there cases when orienting to an end condition gets better results than orienting to the processes involved in bringing about that condition? 2) If so, how do I choose which perspective to use?

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