tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post5056589373509195055..comments2024-03-28T18:17:00.135-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: How I know Moneyball is a true story. Do we clean up theorems and life too much? Lance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-84841910880595544722014-08-07T21:40:26.144-05:002014-08-07T21:40:26.144-05:00IIRC (IOD), cognitive dissonance theory would pred...IIRC (IOD), cognitive dissonance theory would predict that very few cases of the sort you ask for would occur in real life. If people suffer without adequate compensation of the expected sort then they tend to feel that it must have been for some good reason, for instance, becoming a better person on account of the experience.Jon Awbreyhttp://inquiryintoinquiry.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-30726286258888629642014-08-06T07:11:42.048-05:002014-08-06T07:11:42.048-05:00Recently I attended a "meeting for worship wi...Recently I attended a "meeting for worship with attention to business" … which in effect, was an executive steering committee meeting for [name of community redacted].<br /><br />This community's values and traditions emphasize scrupulous regard for truth:<br /><br />------<br /><i>"But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."</i><br /> – Matthew 5.37<br />------<br /><br />Upon reviewing the minutes of the previous meeting, objections were raised regarding the passage:<br /><br />------ <br /><i>"a decision regarding [action redacted] was deferred for further consideration"</i><br />------<br /><br />The objection was to the word 'further':<br /><br />------<br /><i>"There wasn't any 'further' consideration … there hasn't been any consideration at all … either last month or this month … we've been just plain late in paying any attention to this matter! We owe it both to ourselves and to future historians to be entirely candid upon this point and all similar points."</i><br />------<br /><br />There followed five minutes of worshipful silence. No vote was taken (no votes <i>ever</i> are taken) and yet the minutes were amended to assert "the decision was delayed", with no excuse proffered.<br /><br />Is it feasible for large academic institutions to exhibit a comparably scrupulous regard for truth AND communal integrity? The world wonders.John Sidleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16286860374431298556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-4864198762729043372014-08-06T06:47:53.543-05:002014-08-06T06:47:53.543-05:00One of the options I had above was `they lose but ...One of the options I had above was `they lose but they are now better people or something'--- was that the case here? GASARCHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06134382469361359081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-28007469892143748772014-08-05T22:04:25.486-05:002014-08-05T22:04:25.486-05:00Movies where the title character loses/dies: Termi...Movies where the title character loses/dies: Terminator, Predator, Gremlins, Alien... The list goes on and on... So sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-57780295679527530912014-08-05T21:52:24.869-05:002014-08-05T21:52:24.869-05:00The Bad News Bears lose.The Bad News Bears lose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-71046831303183898622014-08-05T20:58:52.045-05:002014-08-05T20:58:52.045-05:00Rocky I, yes he loses in th eend, and does better ...Rocky I, yes he loses in th eend, and does better than expected, but<br />is also a better person in the end. But YES that is a close counterexample<br /><br />And of course they made up for it in Rocky 2,3,4,5, and Rocky Balboa.<br />And there is a movie called Creed, about Apollo Creed's Gradnson, who Rocky helps train as a Boxer. GASARCHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06134382469361359081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-39071829051254308222014-08-05T19:53:05.587-05:002014-08-05T19:53:05.587-05:00Never saw Rocky?Never saw Rocky?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-59589246023947632132014-08-05T16:57:09.539-05:002014-08-05T16:57:09.539-05:00I have a follow-up (perhaps more sinister) questio...I have a follow-up (perhaps more sinister) question: To what extent do people actually "re-memorize" a more polished version of their experience and actions, such that it completely replaces what should have been their original recollection?Eldarnoreply@blogger.com