Sister Sarah

taste is superior knowledge of what works, or what will work but is untried

In which @KevinSimler draws a load-bearing analogy between etiquette and UX http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ux-and-the-civilizing-process/ …

Most people who call themselves socialists are actually just prosocialists.

You can't escape connotation. But you can escape denotation. Goes to show the nature of the signals underlying conversation.

Humph. You make a bunch of hominids in an attempt to create an interesting fantasy world and they all interbreed the moment they meet.

@sarahdoingthing the two must not directly equate one another otherwise their relative values would disappear.

@sarahdoingthing Continuing with the analogy then 'Money' flows from a consensual reality hallucination. Prestige then by similar mechanism

Money is one of the most interesting things http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2016/02/two-malthusian-scares.html …

All the new thinking is about compression https://twitter.com/othercriteria/status/699709623406702592 …

But education is Not About learning; children easily see through culturally mandated illusions if you let them, laughing at naked emperors

@sarahdoingthing Give them facts they can compress to truths (not fictions they can compress to falsehoods)

Now the most interesting systems are other children, you have to come up with really good ones to compete for their attention

If you think about it it's rewarding a particularly useful & natural kind of laziness

A Schmidhuber theory of education: STOP TELLING KIDS FACTS give them systems in which they can discover compressions