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ty also to @reformliturgist for helping me connect play to my discussion of moralizing moralizing i take to be broadly "anti-playful tribal attitudes"
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The biggest change in my worldview is to be less moralizing. I used to primarily judge things/people/ideas as good or bad. Now I'm much more likely to view them as functional in a particular ecosystem.
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Heh I did a talk once 20y ago for a non-STEM audience titled “why life is (NP) hard” where I walked through a bunch of nice life-lesson optimization models without the math... bandit problems, phase transitions etc. Should dig up slides.
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Yeah, I mean in many ways he's just reporting on solved problems in computer science but making it accessible and pointing out real world connections and what assumptions break down when so I'm not sure what there is to disagree with
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I really loved the distinction made between maximizing probability of getting the best option and minimizing expected rank of the person you get (1/e for the first, ~57% for the second iirc).
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