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  1. Comment on What common wisdom/advice do you disagree with? in ~talk

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    Exactly! "Practice makes perfection" is only true if the practice is "refining", if it progressively enforces good ways and eliminates mistakes. Practicing (repeating) bad forms doesn't make...

    Exactly! "Practice makes perfection" is only true if the practice is "refining", if it progressively enforces good ways and eliminates mistakes. Practicing (repeating) bad forms doesn't make perfection.

    Therefore in reality "Corrected practice makes perfection".

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  2. Comment on What's something you wish people would take more seriously? in ~talk

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    What's something you wish people would take more seriously? "Whenever something is wrong, something is too big." (Leopold Kohr) Why do you think many people downplay, overlook, or deride it?...
    • What's something you wish people would take more seriously?

    "Whenever something is wrong, something is too big." (Leopold Kohr)

    • Why do you think many people downplay, overlook, or deride it?

    Because they attribute to "bigness" much more beneficial effects than it really has (mainly improved efficiency, which we use in order to produce mostly-useless goods), and don't see the bad ones (no one can anymore understand quickly enough to act adequately).

    • What are the potential upsides or advantages to changing people's minds on this issue?

    More happiness for all.

    • Are there any potential downsides?

    Slightly less material comfort.

    • What are the downsides caused by people failing to take it seriously?

    Huge, fast, dense... things. Nearly everyone of them. Towns, nations. Goods.

    • What do you think is the best way, if any, to get people to take this issue more seriously?

    Ranting about it is the 'best' I can do.

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  5. Comment on What are the Big Problems? in ~talk

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    Everything is too big. Leopold Kohr wrote about it. Centralized decision and bureaucracy, implied by the sheer gigantism of our societies, have more and more negative effects. Nobody can really...

    Everything is too big.

    Leopold Kohr wrote about it.

    Centralized decision and bureaucracy, implied by the sheer gigantism of our societies, have more and more negative effects.

    Nobody can really understand enough of the huge system to steer it (and leaders more and more explicitly and officially recognize this fact), however decisions with huge impacts are made then applied.

    A leader cannot know his people anymore, therefore it becomes more easy for him to misunderstand, neglect or trick them.

    A quickly growing fraction of humanhood live in huge cities (in the pursuit of a misleading hope of security and a better material well-being), leading them to have frequent light interactions with many other anonymous human beings (this is very new in our evolution, and may have a major psychological impact), becoming another cog in the huge machine.

    Nowadays too much things are too big to success.

    2 votes