Adding up to hair-brained I have for myself come to the point where I say that people or groups or governments make the decisions that make sense to them, even if they look totally hair-brained to me. My task then is to figure out the constellation of forces, the pushes and pulls, that in fact do add up to that hair-brained decision-making. Then we can go into the next iteration and say, "What can we do about the balance of the push and the pull that seems to result in totally non-constructive decisions?" Ursula M. Franklin, Every Tool Shapes the Task decisionsrationality
The Tao of rationality If you would learn to think like reality, then here is the Tao: Since the beginning not one unusual thing has ever happened. Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies Mystery exists in the mind realityrationality
Rationality: From AI to Zombies A Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky www.readthesequences.com The Tao of rationalityEveryone sees themselves as behaving normallyArgue against the bestLet the meaning choose the wordPeople can stand for what is true, for they are already enduring it+11 More Do not propose solutionsOne brickYour intention to cut rationalitythinkingconsciousness
The Wind Rises A Film by Hayao Miyazaki I choose a world with pyramidsIt's cold outside, but this room is quite cozyLive your ten yearsA world with pyramids Who has seen the wind?We must try to live
I choose a world with pyramids Which would you choose: a world with pyramids? Or without? Humanity has always dreamt of flight, but the dream is cursed. My aircraft are destined to become tools for slaughter and destruction. But still, I choose a world with pyramids in it. Which world will you choose? Beauty in flight flighthumanityinnovationmorality
It's cold outside, but this room is quite cozy Show image 0 Show image 1 Did you know that Junkers makes these radiators too? Funny, they look just like his planes. Such strong parallel lines. We need an object for our affections heatform
Live your ten years Artists are only creative for 10 years...we engineers are no different. Live your 10 years to the full. creativityartengineering