sparkyshocks

@sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We should always look to nature, yes. A lot of aerodynamic designs seem to look a lot like the world’s fastest birds. Trees really do seem to optimize for capturing solar energy in an easily encoded blueprint.

  But also there are a few areas where we should recognize the limits of scope of the solutions nature has provided, or recognize the path dependency in how evolution might optimize for a particular pathway that no longer should continue to pose a restriction (the giraffe’s recurrent laryngeal nerve, for example).

  We’re allowed to mix and match. Just gotta be careful and recognize just how powerful billions of years of evolution is, as an optimization method.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theories on Theories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are clearly mathematical.

  Sure. But they’re also philosophical. The categories aren’t mutually exclusive. Basic set theory (which is both mathematics and philosophy).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theories on Theories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see philosophy as a place to make nonrigorous arguments.

  Wait do you think Bertrand Russell and Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel weren’t making philosophical arguments?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theories on Theories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.

  HERE’S A THEOREM: IF IT’S PROVEN, IT’S TRUE EVERYWHERE, FOREVER

  But at the same time, even if it’s true everywhere forever, it might still not be provable, because Gödel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School of hard knocks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I’d push back against the subtext that work experience gives skills. Plenty of people work a job for 10 years without having the adjacent job skills to be able to progress in that career or jump to another.

  Critical thinking skills are the most important thing, and it’s possible to get a 4-year degree without actually picking them up or strengthening your skill sets in that area. But it’s also possible to work for 5 years without developing critical thinking skills, either.

  In the end, no matter what you do with your time, only a small percentage of your effort is going into improving yourself. The people at work are trying to get stuff done for their employer, and the people at school are trying to get through the curriculum. It’s possible to do the work while the employer/school or even yourself cheats you out of the real long term benefits of actually learning during that time frame.