The Tower of Babel Part Two: Science Again!

Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Chris.
Categories: Chris, Philosophy.

I was previously discussing a rather simple but unconventional idea: If Christianity has flaws that atheists reject, why not redesign Christianity (or any other religion) to correct for those flaws?

The last time we discussed this, the subject was the problem of suffering on earth. This time, we will address the question of science and religion.

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The Two Ways of Working

Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by Chris.
Categories: Business/The Software Industry, Chris.

  1. If you know what you want to produce exactly (a car, toaster, etc.) and have a precise plan that you can follow to produce it, you can hire and evaluate people by spreadsheet and monitor their efficiency.
  2. If what you want to produce is unknown (a strategic plan, a new product line), but know the sort of person you want to produce it, you can’t hire or evaluate by quantity. Instead, you need to create the right conditions for people and hope that they produce it themselves, as they will do, in the right conditions.

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Notes

Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Chris.
Categories: Chris.

1. Someday, students may choose to run their own classes.
Oh wait, that’s today.

2. Somewhere (I can’t remember where), I read that caffeine can reduce creativity because it increases focus, and creativity requires free association:

In psychology books, the talent for taking two unrelated concepts and finding connections between them is called associative ability. In his book Creativity in Science: Change, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist, Dean Simonton points out that “persons with low associative barriers may think to connect ideas or concepts that have very little basis in past experience or that cannot easily be traced logically.” Read that last sentence again; it’s indistinguishable from various definitions of insanity.

-The Myths of Innovation, p.13

So imagine developing two drugs: One for sane people to increase their creativity by making them more insane. One for insane people to increase their sanity by making them less creative.

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Famous Presidential Apologies

Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Chris.
Categories: Chris, Politics.


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