good / interesting thread RTing the last tweet, which kinda sucks cause now you've got to scroll up, but it's expressly this tweet in the sequence I want to chain off of. It occurs to me that the decline in values in the post-Christian era (we kind of have some, but >>>https://twitter.com/liminal_warmth/status/1221913761348382720 …
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My biggest problem with the religious framework I was brought in was that it seemed to be more about punishing Bad People and status jockeying than living well in the community I was in As I’ve gotten older I now more appreciate the intent behind the systems
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I expect that any system, as deployed, is going to suck, because it's implemented on top of people, who are petty, vain, etc. That said, some systems will work somewhat better than others.
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counter to the counter: the irreligious wars were worse less patly, I suspect the religious wars were ~none about actual irreconcilable difference in moral values, ~all about ordinary power struggles with the former as camouflage
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The resistor in the feedback loop sets the gain. An open circuit (infinite resitance) leads to runaway gain, with catastrophic results.
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*Negative feedback loop. Positive feedback is used in oscillator circuits, where the output swings wildly from one extreme to the other. Now I'm imagining a Prime Radiant made of millions of opamp chips hooked up to each other in bizarre ways.
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