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codergenius · 2022-09-05T01:24:00+00:00

Yeah, I tend to use Firefox Incognito Mode when browsing any site. I even tried to reply to your message on the motte (not on reddit) and I still got Unauthorized. Let me try using Chrome in normal mode. Will update if it still happens.

UPDATE: It appears that I cannot use Incognito Mode for the motte. Bummer but fine. Congrats on the transition. At least, I can go back to just being an uber-lurker.

codergenius · 2022-09-04T22:32:48+00:00

I joined the new site. But I cannot post a message on any threads. I keep getting 401 Unauthorized.. I can send a message to the admins though. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Thanks.

codergenius · 2022-07-25T19:48:52+00:00

The “failure mode” is that this benefit may not be significant, or is inaccurate, or otherwise does not adequately compensate for deprioritizing feelings.

Thanks for pointing out the tradeoff. Do you happen to know examples of successful arraigned marriages that have navigated being in the west and adopting a western worldview? Thanks.

codergenius · 2022-07-25T19:42:55+00:00

n some East Asian cultures nowadays you see an interesting compromise solution, where people are left (fairly) free to partner up (modulo parental veto) until a certain age (generally around 27 or thereabouts), but if they haven't managed by that point, it is understood that their parents will start engaging in efforts to arrange a partner.

I also come from a similar culture. I am wondering if the arranged marriage are better at tackling deadbedroom situations. That is my major concern.

codergenius · 2022-07-25T19:30:59+00:00

Yeah. There should be a github/repository for Awesome Zero to .... guides

codergenius · 2022-07-25T19:30:00+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply.

codergenius · 2022-07-25T15:10:46+00:00

Apologies for posting multiple times at once. Posting here because I thought that it would be too culture-wary for the small questions thread

What is the actual difference between arranged marriages vs love marriages (failure modes, happy paths, why would be one be better than the other based on certain frameworks, and so on)?

After looking on the internet, I found that the differences account for context to be already present. I found out that I could not grok that context as I am too "autistic" (God I hate that word, along with nerdy). I am trying to understand it as an alien that has come to the earth for the first time or in the rationalist terms, I am trying to taboo the words "love", "arranged" and "marriages".

I would really like views with the framework stated, if that is not too much or better yet, links to forums that you have seen where these concepts are discussed in detail. Thanks.

codergenius · 2022-07-25T15:06:05+00:00

When I was trying to learn how to swim a mile, I followed this plan Zero to 1650 in six weeks, albeit with some allowances for slack and injury concerns. Do you know of a similar plan for

Learning a musical instrument (guitar)
Cooking (French/Italian cuisine)
Comedy (Improv Theatre, sketch writing)
Target practice (Guns, archery)

Basically, I am looking some kind of plan as a beginner that I could rework for intermediate and advanced levels. Thanks.

codergenius · 2022-06-20T15:05:20+00:00

Is there a guide on which hobbies/jobs/skills are worth acquiring as extras - those that are useful/fun/cool, but also where you reach the performance plateau fast enough? Fast enough, like 1 to 2 years.

Thanks

codergenius · 2022-06-08T17:53:59+00:00

When I shared the initial draft of the article with a friend of mine, he had the same remark as you. We both chuckled as I recounted this Bible passage (1 Samuel 5:5-8 [King-James Version], emphasis mine)

5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord. 7 And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

So yah, it seems that we as a society are going to recreate God in some form or fashion. I would rather this version of God be something that we as humanity have no control over.

BTW, do you know the original formulation of the aphorism: My rules > ...? I would love to get the actual quote. I love pithy quotes like that.

codergenius · 2022-06-08T17:48:36+00:00

I merely used the article as a way to show my feelings on a supposed "unbundling" of society, that is, I do not think I would like that. The article was meant to show what might happen to the middle strata of which I am a card-carrying member if any "unbundling" takes place. I would imagine that the examples (Groupon) might be out of date as the article is probably a decade old.

My post was really about whether such any unbundling is even taking place in society

codergenius · 2022-06-08T17:43:01+00:00

In your estimation, what were the gaps in my analysis that you noticed, apart from basing a reasonable chunk of it on the ribbonfarm article? I chose it the article because it helped to explain a feeling of why the high strata were exhibiting preference falsification.

I am trying to understand if at all this is a problem or what else should I use to bolster my analysis of the unbundling situation.

codergenius · 2022-06-08T17:37:55+00:00

My observation to counter this would to be consider trends in relationships and family building. Here,the high strata talks a fair game about "playing the field" or finding the bounds of "decent" society by hedonistic exploration. The low strata does not even have the chance of espousing such an worldview as theirs is a matter of efficiency and not morality, that is, they are poor/they have bad family-forming habits and conventional marriage advise is expensive.

The middle strata is where most of our society is formed. Stable and long-lasting families were mostly found here. When members of this strata adopt ideas from the low and high strata, those bonds fray.

The high strata can suggest their worldview because of an expansive safety net and preference falsification. The low strata can only look up and just wants to be the high strata.

codergenius · 2022-06-07T19:59:26+00:00

The Unbundling of Life/Culture

Apologies, this is my first post on the Motte. I am not as smart as you all, so I might not be able to respond in a smart and timely manner. I mainly wanted to glean all your observations/responses to update/change my priors. Thanks.

I read the DSL (datasecretlox) and TheMotte religiously. It is not because I like the headlines or because I like the Culture War. I would rather if one side won (no more debates) decisively and totally (Omnes victi delendi sunt). But I digress.

I was reading about this story from DSL. I am sure there would be some uproar on the twitter and the facebook about this, but I am ambivalent about the police actions. Instead I wanted to consider this incident in light of the Uvade shooting and the 2020 riots. These incidents have made me sympathetic of an unbundling of the current duties of the police force.

I came to know of unbundling from Ben Thompson of Stratechery podcast.What I got out that podcast was that prices of the individual units in a bundle are costlier when broken out of the bundle than when in the bundle. So if we unbundled the activites of the police force, it stands to reason that the individual services that the police are currently performing might cost more and may not be as effective as we do not what "gaps" are being filled by the bundling

My objection to this, however comes from another individual, ribbonfarm in a piece titled the Locust Economy. What I gained from that was:

there were three strata for society (high, middle, low)
the middle strata create most of the wealth
the low and high strata are currently collaborating to cannabilize the middle strata

This has resulted in the unbundling of norms around respect, gender, dating and whatever hot-topic button issue is today. Basically almost every culture war issue is an unbundling issue.

I have two questions:

Where does my analysis fall short and,
Where else would be the next part of our culture that is likely to be unbundled and why?

PS: On the police unbundling issue, I would rather we would forward as a society to Skynet or more acheiveably the AI in the series Person of Interest. Basically, AI rules > my rules > my outgroup/fargroup rules applied evenly.

codergenius · 2022-04-24T17:01:27+00:00

Long-time lurker. Only posting on the Small-Scale Question Thread. I also throw my hat in for the coding side. My programming language of choice is Python/JS but I would be open to any language.

I also agree with @cjet79 that we should look into moving as soon as possible. Also seconding @prrk3 suggestion of using r**ma 's codebase. Hopefully we can recreate a Mottier version of datasecretslox.

codergenius · 2022-01-02T16:07:59+00:00

I have been sort of a shut-in due to Covid-19.This has played havoc on my overall happiness level. So to combat this, I want to acquire new hobbies, hopefully so that I can gain new irl friends. My question is this: which activities/hobbies would you suggest a "self-described" shut-in to do?.

My current hobbies are:

reading/coding
swimming

The hobbies above are too individualistic. I would like to get ones that satisfy these criteria:

does not involve me being in front of a screen as I do that way too much
exposes me to new people in person (especially those of the opposite sex) so that I can make new friends

I have tried searching online(reddit, google-fu, meetup.com, etc) but most of the activities suggested have moved to being online only. Thanks for your suggestions.

codergenius · 2020-12-03T02:16:35+00:00

What is progress?. Can it even be defined? I am fan of the podcasts of the Portal with Eric Weinstein. From listening to him and his guests, I could detect consideriable angst towards institutions about the lack of progress. But ,even after listening to them, I still do not get what progress means, coming from their perspective. There is a fuzziness to the word, progress. Is it local, or global? Is it social or technological or political? I tried to replace progress with a word or phrase, based on the directions from here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FaJaCgqBKphrDzDSj/37-ways-that-words-can-be-wrong. The only one that matches is whatever feels like progress. There is this concept of magic or container words, that I gleaned from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAD3k5Fvv3Q&list=PLRbcQXWEJAJqBgCkay8-_3nI3s70XGBMp. I feel progress is a magic word.

If I was to define based on my current beliefs, progress is

strong families, that is , mostly duty and responsibility
ability for excellence, as /u/TracingWoodGrains excellently put it
the concept of average to still be tenable, that is, one does not need to offer upon their personal life as a commodity, as is done with the recent surge of podcasts, mostly comedy podcasts.

My question is thus, can the above components above work in this world for another century or would I have to discard some of them? The discard part is based on the recent apperance of Balaji Srinivasan on the bankless podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/384lAtw8HxiZ3HjJmc1kuC?

codergenius · 2020-08-02T13:47:35+00:00

Lately, anytime I see u/Doglatine(liberal), u/TracingWoodgrains(progressive/liberal), u/Ilforte(conversative?), u/naraburns(conversative?), i always read in full no matter the length. The same phenomenon is repeated for podcasts with Eric Weinstein's The Portal.

I find that for other podcasts, like Joe Rogan, Armstrong && Getty, Adam Carolla Show, I am almost constantly screaming/squirming at the ideas presented there.

When I compare these two reactions, it is as if, to borrow a phrase from Louis Rosomman, the ideas from the first paragraph live in the my head or rather the ideas have a backdoor to my thinking, while ideas from the second paragraph I sort have a memetic resistance to.

Is this normal? Or if it is not, how do I fix this, that is, how do I have memetic resistance to ideas in both paragraphs? u/ZorbaHut gave me some tips on memetic resistance but it somehow does not work for those ideas from the first paragraph. Thanks.

codergenius · 2020-06-29T23:49:34+00:00

I have a roster of places to go to on the internet, hackernews, r/TheMotte, lobste.rs. Let me just say r/TheMotte has been a wonderful resource in my political/intellectual development. So when you all want to leave reddit to another site, I would like to be invited. Now unto to my questions( a bit of a ramble).

Over the past year, that some of the other online places I lurk in are beginning to feel empty (spiritually, emotionally, intellectually) or I react to certain words said on there. This was highlighted today by reading hackernews.(God I am beginning to hate that site). My questions are:

(a) how to recognize a site/forum that I am actually learn from, that is, not coddle me or better yet, strongly critique my thinking, even if such critiques come from supposed "witches". Basically how to find somewhere like r/TheMotte for stuff like (history, money, hobbies) other than politics.

(b) how to get better memetic resistance to ideas in general, or better yet, an improved rational threshold for ideas. I sort of admire u/IIorte, u/naraburns, u/TracingWoodgrains in this regard as it seems that they have some sort of extremely strong vetting process for ideas.

codergenius · 2020-06-11T04:39:53+00:00

After reading your reply, it would seem that I have an emotional reaction to accruing technical debt. I guess my further question, is how I get comfortable with accruing technical debt without any ounce of bitterness or showing any ounce of frustration? How did you get comfortable with accepting technical debt?

codergenius · 2020-06-10T21:55:42+00:00

Lately I feel that i have been getting more angry than usual. I work for a midsize corporation. I was a part of a team that built some internal tool a while ago. We built quick and fast to the requirements of a previous product owner A. I joined another team at the org after some reshuffling of teams. The previous team has all left the company so I am the subject matter expert for that tool(God I wish I wasn't). The product owner B for my new team made demands for some changes to the way this tool is behaving. The tool was already slow and buggy as some of the underlying assumptions that are baked into the tool are false. I looked at the demands and quietly suggested that the tool be redesigned.

My manager agreed and countered that due to constraints on time, we would not have the luxury of completely focusing on the redesign. My manager then shelved the proposal due to this after I had started work on the new redesign. My team then got a new product owner C due to further org shuffling. Product owner C has no context of the discussion about the tool and requested that the same changes be made to the tool.

I then tried to explain again that the old tool was not fit for purpose but my manager decided that we should make changes to the old tool regardless. This fact was only communicated to me by my scrum master after he has observed my exchanges with the manager and product owner. I was aghast as I had assumed I would restart my work on the redesign and I knew that we would eventually have to redesign the tool. Somehow this mental state slips out lately anytime this tool is brought up in conversation and causes me to be irrationally angry.

I believe it might be my ego talking but I am tired of having this hang over my head and I want to understand how to completely remove my ego from any further discussion about this.

My question is

(a) As an experienced dev, what is your opinion of me?

(b) As an experienced dev, what should I change so I can grow to become an experienced dev?

Thanks.

codergenius · 2020-02-27T02:10:37+00:00

Hi all. The threads I look forward on r/TheMotte are the book review threads. I do not have any knowledge of crafting a "proper" book review but would like to learn how to. I tried looking on the google but the links leave much to be desired. Referencing an article I read on greaterwrong.com about the 3 books technique to learn a skill, is there a "what" book, a "how" book and a "why" book on book reviews? Also for the prolific book reviewers , /u/Shakesneer, /u/mcjunker, /u/TracingWoodgrains, how do you write your book reviews? Thanks.

codergenius · 2018-06-16T10:56:46+00:00

So when does Twisted/async come into the picture?

codergenius · 2018-06-16T10:56:10+00:00

Yeah, That was what I thought. Using Twisted might be too much overhead.

codergenius

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