Reason

In an ideal world, reason would be unnecessary. You would be happy just because. Logic is just another basis for legitimacy, built to enable negotiations between peoples who did not previously share a common cultural language for communication.

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The next-next-next big thing : Big (Data) Brother 2.0 (Computational Legal Intelligence).

 Imagine: You are unhappy with how you got treated at work. Legal Intelligence will give you the laws you can quote to help your company "understand" your problem.

Imagine: What your vendor did seems questionable. Legal Intelligence will give you the laws to quote to help your vendor come to terms with their legal responsibility.

Imagine : Entering your scenario into a website, and it will tell you all the relevant laws and policies, past judgements, and gray areas, and give you a sample approach how you can use the law to win your case. This is the rule of law, by the people, for the people.

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Next big thing : ubiquitous purpose-specific computing ("upc")

Imagine : direct mail flyers in your mailbox that interact with your mails to give you ads that genuinely interest you, without privacy leak.

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The next big thing : wearable robotics?

Imagine : Typing gloves that let you type on an imagined keyboard with full-keyboard touch when you type.

Imagine : programmable nanorobotic underwear that guides you in martial arts and dance

Imagine : smart glasses that also respond physically to turn your head to look at what you're searching for.

   

Let me change my question

Let me change my question

If you fill a glass up to the middle with water, is it half full or half empty?

If you submerge the same glass of water into a tank of water, is the glass full, or is the glass empty?


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Emptiness

Emptiness
A room can become full because it was empty. A room can be empty because it has four walls. If a room had no walls, how can it be full, how can it be empty? What is the purpose of emptiness and fullness? Is your heart full, or is it empty?


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Religion

Religion is like a bank that assesses your credit risk based on the strength of how much you believe in your future, and then funds your dream with an equal amount of confidence so that when you invest your energies in your dream, you have enough liquidity to negotiate the uncertainties that stand in front of you.


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Chaos

Chaos

Your intelligence was not created to understand chaos.

Your intelligence was created by chaos.

You see order in chaos because the chaos of your mind resonates/correlates with the chaos of the universe.

It is not the irregularity, but the seeming regularity, that is the flaw in our experience of chaos.


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Free Fall

Rock-a-bye, baby,
On the tree top.
When the wind blows,
The cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks,
The cradle will fall,
And down will come baby,
Cradle and all.

Between birth and death, we happen.
We fall towards the life-bearing earth
Like babies off a tree
Living in a free fall.

Between wake and sleep
We cut time up into an eternity of nanoseconds;
Between truths we lie on
Our imagination of life on the ground.

Between now
And the eternity our minds can conceive
We hold on to the fall, believing
That only the fall, will set us free.

What is your definition of forgive?

What is your definition of forgive?

I think forgive means deciding not to act on a misdeed against you towards the person who offended you.

Not forgiving means you plan to take revenge on that person sooner or later. It does not matter if you have forgotten what the misdeed was. It is possible to forget but not forgive.

Forgetting means writing off an event that occurred, meaning you decide to deny that a specific misdeed was ever done against you.

Changing what you believe or how you function in response to a misdeed against you is simply learning, which is independent of forgiving and forgetting.

World history shows us we are good at forgetting, bad at forgiving, and almost never learn.

All combinations of learning and not learning, forgiving and not forgiving, forgetting and not forgetting are possible.

Love gives you the ability to reinterpret an event so that instead of deciding that a misdeed was done against you, you decide that there was nothing wrong with the event, and therefore nothing to forgive.


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How religions rationalize unbelieving

How religions rationalize unbelieving

Christianity: if you don't believe, you were meant never to believe.

Buddhism: if you don't believe, we still win because you actually do believe. its just that the time hasn't come for you to admit it.

Atheism: if you don't believe (in atheism) you could use a (downward) leap of faith.

Others??


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Stigma is a carpet under which politicians sweep problems they cannot solve

Data says: Happier countries tend to be less religious, but less religious countries do not tend to be more happy. Yeah, makes sense. Happiness is something you decide, religious or not.

Thinking about Service

Apart from upbringing and all, Japan has excellent customer service because customer expectations of the product has been leveled out by offerings that are consistently fast, good, and cheap (when compared to similar offerings), such that the most effective differentiating factor becomes service.

This leveling out may be coming to an end though, as Korean and Chinese companies are matching offerings that are just as fast, almost as good, and much cheaper. It remains to be seen whether economic benefits will affect the signature level of service offered by the Japanese, or whether Japanese upbringing will prove service to be something that cannot be created purely through economic incentives.



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10 ways to evaluate a market

Translation is an Art

Translation is an Art

The challenge of translation, is not so much about whether the listener has understood what the speaker had said - a job increasingly taken up by machine translation and AI. the challenge of translation, is about whether the listener understood anything that the speaker DIDN'T say - something that happens even when the speaker and listener are speaking the same language.

When you are listening to a translation, you are always listening to something the translator has created as he transplants an idea from another language, creating a context of words that highlight what he thinks the speaker intended to be read into, hiding what he thinks the speaker intentionally left ambiguous.

It can be a dangerous thing to read between the lines of any translated text, without first learning about the purpose and process of how the text ended up in the language you speak.


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Dao

In the beginning there is dao. Then perfection was invented. Perfection gave birth to imperfection. But both perfection and imperfection are dao.

Knowledge, Intuition, Experience

Knowledge, Intuition, Experience

No, experience doesn't allow you to skip steps. Intuition comes close by letting you take calculated risks when skipping steps. Experience on the other hand, lets you run through the steps so fast that you're done before someone can spell out all the steps. But knowledge through analysis, that's what allows you to skip steps.


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Pre-Scientific Remedies

There are products that don't claim any effects.
And products that imply without claiming.
And products that claim without backing it up.
And products that back it up with folklore.
And products that back it up with positive user endorsement, ignoring the negative dataset.
And products that back it up with endorsement from researchers of dubious bias.
And products that back it up with dubious research.
And products that back it up with fake research papers.
And products that back it up with real research results.
How do customers choose between these products but try for themselves?


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