How I Became Stupid
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And he's not even that lonely, given that he has a group of similarly self-righteous friends. But since he is determined to be "stupid," Antoine tries a variety of methods before ending up as a successful stockbroker, living a life with all of the necessary accessories: a giant refrigerator, a Porsche and loads of contemporary art.
After a group intervention by his friends (including readings of Descartes and Pascal and a showing of "The Simpsons"), Antoine comes to his senses and goes back to his original life, supposedly realizing the stupidity of what passes for happiness in society. The real irony in the book (and perhaps this is Page's true point, though it seems unlikely) is that what passes as "smart" in Antoine's world is just as ridiculous as what passes as "stupid" -- nothing more than a bunch of empty signifiers.
On Monday, Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, became the latest candidate to excoriate the Trump administration and Azar for their lack of success lowering drug prices and for the perceived conflict of hiring a former pharmaceutical executive to lead that effort.
I have been a T1 for 54 years, many of which with no insurance. Eli Lilly has a program to help those in need. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DIE! Many times through the years I have contacted other diabetics who may have extra insulin to purchase. Since I became a diabetic in 1966, I have seen insulin go up from $2.50 per vial to ridiculous prices for those in need. It is very sad that GREED plays a more important part than helping another human being live.
I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She later dropped out of graduate school, went to Harvard Law School and is now a senior lawyer for a major environmental organization. At some point, the conversation turned to why she had left graduate school. To my utter astonishment, she said it was because it made her feel stupid. After a couple of years of feeling stupid every day, she was ready to do something else.
I had thought of her as one of the brightest people I knew and her subsequent career supports that view. What she said bothered me. I kept thinking about it; sometime the next day, it hit me. Science makes me feel stupid too. It's just that I've gotten used to it. So used to it, in fact, that I actively seek out new opportunities to feel stupid. I wouldn't know what to do without that feeling. I even think it's supposed to be this way. Let me explain.
Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time. No doubt, this can be difficult for students who are accustomed to getting the answers right. No doubt, reasonable levels of confidence and emotional resilience help, but I think scientific education might do more to ease what is a very big transition: from learning what other people once discovered to making your own discoveries. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries.
Today is Friday, Jan 22, 2016. I will remember this day. In discussions we security researchers often talk about the dumb average computer user. Today I almost became one of them. I received the following email from a spoofed sender address [email protected]:
But her eyes clouded when she talked about the funeral in Beijing for the three Chinese killed in the embassy attack. Her words became bruised, accusatory. I asked, "Do you really believe the Americans did it... To continue reading: responsiveAd({className: "subscribe-link",ads: [{type: "desktop",size: "142x70",cm: { position: "subscribebtn", type: "text"}},{type: "tablet",size: "142x70",cm: { position: "subscribebtn", type: "text"}},{// Mobile 300type: "mobile",size: "142x70",config: {zone: "219200",site: "28275",size_x: "142", size_y: "70",type: "-1"}}]}); or Log-In
Fortunately, this political strategy had a good economic logic: given the importance of agriculture in the Chinese economy in the late 1970s, a breakthrough in this sector would generate powerful momentum for reform. Moreover, the prescribed solution was not overly complex: restoration of household farming and market liberalisation could produce instant and huge efficiency gains. Indeed, rural reform quickly increased Chinese agricultural output and farmers' income. Foreign direct investment, initially made palatable to domestic foes with many restrictions, also rose gradually. Together, successful agricultural reform and the introduction of foreign direct investment laid the foundations of China's non-state economy. Within a decade, township and village enterprises, joint ventures and wholly owned foreign firms became China's most dynamic growth engines.
For Deng, the mantra was: "It's the economy, stupid". Chinese leaders today continue to sing the same mantra. It is time for them to think about adopting a different tune. The strategy focusing on good economic performance to sustain political support worked for Deng because of a combination of favourable circumstances and brilliant political strategising.
The same strategy will not work for his successors. Not only have the circumstances changed, but the economic strategy adopted by Chinese leaders is unlikely to produce the quick payoffs needed to build political support. They must now seek a new political strategy aimed at regaining public trust and support through political reform. The new reform mantra should be: "It's the politics, stupid."
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Historically, human development trends are linked to economic changes. The idea of adolescence emerged a century ago after the U.S. economic base shifted from agriculture to industry. Teenagers with the skills to work on a farm lacked the education required for factory jobs. As high school became a necessity, the teenage years turned into a transition period to adulthood rather than a time for adulthood itself.
> This is your tactic. You are trying to show that plan with 0.0% adoption rate is somehow better then plan with 0.3% adoption rate. Sure, 0.3% is pitiful adoption rate, but 0.0% is much worse no matter which way you are looking on it.It's not my tactic. It's what happened. You know, a historical fact.The common sense proposition (the one of backward compatibility) did not get accepted, ergo it never became "the plan" or "a plan" for IPv6 transition. This proposition did not get accepted by the same people that achieved the current 0.3% penetration, so the outcome of 0.0% counts against what they did too, which gives them a total score of 0.3%.From my perspective, this is more like zero. My ping still doesn't work.Your expose (or some of it) about various tribulations with OSes during the 64-transition is the stuff we should have been talking about in the last 10 years during the real IPv6 transition (i.e. stack upgrades). You know, real world problems that got solved, so that it would be really easy to upgrade today when the address crunch is upon us. As you've shown with the Windows example, it can be done so that it eventually becomes easy.I love it when people keep avoiding simple, fundamental questions. There is always an elaborate, sophisticated, technical explanation, usually many pages long. In the end, the simple question asked at the beginning remains unanswered: why do people connected already cannot just stay connected?Failure to answer that question leads to the current non-adoption of IPv6. (Log in to post comments) Yet another stupid rant. Posted Jan 28, 2011 2:55 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
"Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. [...] ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once" -- > There is always an elaborate, sophisticated, technical explanation, usually many pages long. In the end, the simple question asked at the beginning remains unanswered: why do people connected already cannot just stay connected?The short answer to "why do people connected already cannot just stay connected" is "because the IPv6 network is a different network".Of course, this is not the question you meant. What you mean to ask is, if I am understanding the massive sprawling thread forest (but please correct me if I am wrong), is something like "why could not a transition plan be made which would allow for the IPv4->IPv6 transition with no loss of connectivity at any moment". With an implied "if everyone followed DJB's plan, it would have worked".Leaving aside DJB for a moment, this is NOT a simple question. It is also VERY technical. Either you use a heavy amount of jargon, which can be impenetrable to anyone who does not have a deep knowledge of the Internet architecture, or you use a simpler (but still very technical) language and your answer becomes quite long. To make things worse, most of it would be showing hypotheses of possible plans or parts of plans and explaining where they fail.As to DBJ's plan, here is why it would not work: "Once these software upgrades have been done on practically every Internet computer, we'll have reached the magic moment: people can start relying on public IPv6 addresses as replacements for public IPv4 addresses."With DJB's plan, we could only START using IPv6 addresses after PRATICALLY EVERY INTERNET COMPUTER had been upgraded to understand IPv6! Yet another stupid rant. Posted Jan 28, 2011 3:54 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
Despite being nonplussed by this unexpected challenge, I squashed second doubts and jogged up into a narrowing, slickrock gully that became steeper and more crumbly as I ascended. Near its top, the gully pinched out into eroded overhangs, but a footledge ran left to a crack, which ascended to slabs above, detouring around the problematic roofs. 2b1af7f3a8