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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 12 Nov 2019
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      A point I've been making repeatedly to my maths tutees is that there's at least two categories (really a spectrum) of solution to problems: * A slow, plodding, way that will reliably work. * A clever, elegant, fast, way that may or may not work. You need to be able to do both.

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    2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 12 Nov 2019
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      Something I enjoyed about the Polymath Project (online collaborative mathematics) was that it showed over & over that the way the world's best mathematicians get to the second type of solution is to do an awful lot of the first. I wish I could show every grad student this...

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    3. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 12 Nov 2019
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      Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me. It's the same in programming - there's the occasional point where you need some clever insight to crack the problem open, but even then you're usually better off doing the work the gross ugly way and then rewriting it when insight strikes.

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    4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 12 Nov 2019
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      A favourite memory is of three very well known theoretical physicists arguing at the blackboard over how to find an elegant way of writing down the product of two particular 2 x 2 (maybe 3 x 3?) matrices, without actually explicitly doing the multiplication. I walked away...

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    5. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 12 Nov 2019
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      ... came back an hour later, and they were still arguing.

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 12 Nov 2019
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      can’t stop laughing

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    7. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 12 Nov 2019
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      You've seen this movie before, I'm sure, albeit with a different cast! Hell, you've probably starred in it. I know I have.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 12 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen @DRMacIver

      Yes, “three CS PhDs flailing together for half an hour on a basic computer task because there somehow ought to be a less painful way of doing it than the obvious one which would take all of three minutes” is the analog

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        2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 12 Nov 2019
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          I feel like this is definitely a group failure mode more than an individual one. When you've got people to talk about the problem you can talk about it indefinitely, but when it's just you you might as well roll up your sleeves and dig into it.

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        3. Michael Peyton Jones‏ @mpeytonjones 12 Nov 2019
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          It can go the other way! Sometimes if it's just me then I can go "hmm, I'll go away and think about it a bit" but if there are other people I feel like I have to make progress and so I just do the thing that will do that.

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