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Feb. 26th, 2022 12:42 pmThis sounds like a Rapunzel story with a Trojan Horse twist:
Jealousy, boredom, lust and deceit are punished here, with just one important exception — the Prince. He wins because in addition to being cunning and lustful he's also above the law. By comparison, in the Bath-sheba story, David was still the subject to Gods law, but only through the death of their first son. Moreover, their son Solomon inherited the kingdom through Bath-sheba scheming.
A certain merchant, who was addicted to jealousy, had a wife that was a model of beauty and loveliness; and of the excess of his fear and jealousy of her, he would not abide with her in any town, but built her a pavilion without the city, apart from all other buildings. And he raised its height and strengthened its doors and provided them with curious locks; and when he had occasion to go into the city, he locked the doors and hung the keys about his neck....
So he called up one of his pages, who brought him ink-case[203] and paper and wrote her a letter, setting forth his condition for love of her. Then he set 168it on the pile-point of an arrow and shot it at the pavilion, and it fell in the garden, where the lady was then walking with her maidens...
...
came under the window and said to her, “Let me down a thread, that I may send thee this key; which do thou take and keep by thee.” So she let down a thread and he tied the key to it.
...
So the Prince returned to his palace and fixing the padlock, the key whereof he had given the lady, on a chest he had by him, entered therein. Then the Wazir locked it upon him and setting it on a mule, carried it to the pavilion of the merchant.
...
she hurried the Prince back into the chest, but, in her confusion, forgot to lock it. .... So they took up the box by the lid, whereupon it flew open and lo! the Prince was lying within. When the merchant saw him and knew him for the King’s son....
“Go in, thou, and take the King’s son; for none of us may lay hands on him.” So the Minister went in and taking the Prince, went away with him. As soon as they were gone, the merchant put away his wife and swore that he would never marry again.
-- 591st & 592nd nights. The King's Son and the Merchant's Wife.
--- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54525/54525-h/54525-h.htm#c167
Jealousy, boredom, lust and deceit are punished here, with just one important exception — the Prince. He wins because in addition to being cunning and lustful he's also above the law. By comparison, in the Bath-sheba story, David was still the subject to Gods law, but only through the death of their first son. Moreover, their son Solomon inherited the kingdom through Bath-sheba scheming.
Applied CT
Feb. 15th, 2018 04:00 pmBartosz Milewski gets it right when he says that CT helps navigate levels of abstraction.
https://youtu.be/sx8FELiIPg8?t=45s
I should try to explain timing as a structure with 3 (or 4?) levels of abstraction, e.g. Coecke's work helps map effort to duration.
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/universal+construction
https://youtu.be/sx8FELiIPg8?t=45s
I should try to explain timing as a structure with 3 (or 4?) levels of abstraction, e.g. Coecke's work helps map effort to duration.
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/universal+construction
Short-term vs Long-term
Dec. 25th, 2017 11:43 pmShort-term looks like this:
X -> 1 ("in the long run we are all dead")
Long-term:
X -> 2
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As a side note, we can see that attempts to present the current tax reform as a tax cut limit the discussion to short-term. The authors of the strategy intentionally obfuscate long-term consequences because they don't have good answers about long-term risks.
X -> 1 ("in the long run we are all dead")
Long-term:
X -> 2
===========
As a side note, we can see that attempts to present the current tax reform as a tax cut limit the discussion to short-term. The authors of the strategy intentionally obfuscate long-term consequences because they don't have good answers about long-term risks.
Quote of the Day
Dec. 30th, 2016 06:22 pmquod si de nihilo fierent, subito exorerentur 180
incerto spatio atque alienis partibus anni,
quippe ubi nulla forent primordia, quae genitali
concilio possent arceri tempore iniquo.
But if they came from nothing, they'ld spring up,
Quite suddenly, at uncertain intervals,
At wrong times of year, since primal atoms
Would not be there for an unfavourable season.
- Lucretius, Trans. Melville, On the Nature of the Universe. Book 1, 180.
incerto spatio atque alienis partibus anni,
quippe ubi nulla forent primordia, quae genitali
concilio possent arceri tempore iniquo.
But if they came from nothing, they'ld spring up,
Quite suddenly, at uncertain intervals,
At wrong times of year, since primal atoms
Would not be there for an unfavourable season.
- Lucretius, Trans. Melville, On the Nature of the Universe. Book 1, 180.
Суета сует
Nov. 23rd, 2016 06:59 pmОчень трудно убедить людей в том, что они неправы, после того, как они выиграли. Например, после успешного захвата Крыма было невозможно объяснить гражданину России, что это стратегическая ошибка, которая обернется долгосрочными проблемами для страны.
Точно так же сейчас бесполезно пытаться убедить сторонников Трампа в том, что они неправы после того, как Трамп выиграл президентские выборы.
Анализ Эклезиаста начинается с 13:18
Точно так же сейчас бесполезно пытаться убедить сторонников Трампа в том, что они неправы после того, как Трамп выиграл президентские выборы.
Анализ Эклезиаста начинается с 13:18
Quote of the Day
Oct. 23rd, 2016 01:35 pmHe was certainly a very happy man, and afforded no occasion to have any complaint made of fortune on his account. He it was who alone had three of the most desirable things in the world, - the government of his nation, and the high priesthood, and the gift of prophecy. For the Deity conversed with him, and he was not ignorant of any thing that was to come afterward.
--- Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. [Para. 67]. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
Timing for the Selfish Gene
Oct. 14th, 2016 05:13 pmКак обычно, в ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ivanov_petrov интересные истории про науку.
С Докинзом я бы добавил, что его книга вышла в 1976-м году, когда Америка пыталась осмыслить события вокруг Recombinant DNA. Тогда много кто пытался закрыть огромную дыру в понимании обществом genetic engineering; у Докинза получилось.
Надо бы подумать над разницей между немецким и американским стилем разговора между ученым и обществом. В Германии традиция аналитическая, а в Америке - прагматическая. После 2-й мировой войны американская модель победила.
ivanov_petrov интересные истории про науку. С Докинзом я бы добавил, что его книга вышла в 1976-м году, когда Америка пыталась осмыслить события вокруг Recombinant DNA. Тогда много кто пытался закрыть огромную дыру в понимании обществом genetic engineering; у Докинза получилось.
Надо бы подумать над разницей между немецким и американским стилем разговора между ученым и обществом. В Германии традиция аналитическая, а в Америке - прагматическая. После 2-й мировой войны американская модель победила.
