1/ 100% agree with this I've been reflecting a lot on how, back in the 1970s, once or twice in school we were asked to write book reports or essays on our "heroes". I think that that was the tail end of an older culture, dying even then. https://twitter.com/VarangianSkull/status/1421116023152037892 …
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2/ Heroes are moral exemplars. The more you turn your mind to a topic, the more you cache those norms in your sub conscious. If, one day, there is shooting on the bus you're on, and you've never thought about this before, the chance that you make the right decision >>>
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3/ (to run TOWARDS the danger and try to human-swarm the attacker) is roughly nil. The only way you'll do that is if you game the scenario out in your head a 100 times, to the point that this behavior because yours standard for the right thing to do.
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4/ If cops show up at your door and ask some very reasonable questions (e.g. "we just want to verify your name"), if you haven't gamed this out, you will make the easy (and wrong) choice of speaking with them. You have to mentally practice things, and have all of the answers >
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5/ and habits already in cache. The phrase "already in cache" reminds me of something I discussed w a good friend Geo at a startup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permabit way back in the day: a good lookup table is worth 15 IQ points.
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7/ A debate I've had w some idiot NH libertarians is the assertion "it's OK to blow a stop sign at 20 mph...if you can tell there's no car coming. It's a victimless crime, MAAAAN". No. !@# that. Your "no car coming" detector is < 99.9% accurate.https://twitter.com/josecamoessilva/status/1421144685129572353 …
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José Camões Silva @josecamoessilvaReplying to @MorlockPI've tried to explain to friends the power of following robust protocols for common repeated actions, because the 99% of the time you don't need them train you for the 1% of time they save you from a costly fail, usually to no effect on the friends.
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what does it matter? THEY'RE not driving !
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