SophisticatedHillbilly
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SophisticatedHillbilly
11mo ago
The problem you’ve presented is not comparable to 1x1, but rather to (1x/y) x (1y), which would equal one in either system.
A better comparison is: you have a property that is 1 mile in length, and 1 mile in width. How large is it? Certainly not 1 mile. Is a response of 1 mile or 2 miles closer to reality?
I think the system we have for math is very useful, but it’s not necessarily cleaving reality perfectly at the joints, and maybe there’s a way it could be.
SophisticatedHillbilly
11mo ago
Honestly this pushes me the other way. I’ve found straightforward by-the-book medicine to be largely useless in resolving any of the health issues I’ve had (other than one infection, at which point the doctor was just a hoop to jump through to get the antibiotics I knew I needed.)
As such, whenever I’ve had a doctor actually solve my problem, it was less because they were a doctor and more because they were an extremely high-iq person with enough exposure to health problems to discern the zebra-problem from the hoofbeats.
I can go through the checklists and find the normal issues myself. Hell, I can set a bone, pick medications out of the available options, or look at my bloodwork myself too. It’s like changing your car oil, just a series of steps.
What I can’t do is realize that I have a 1/1000000 congenital heart issue because of a weird head feeling I get, or know what the proper course of action is after that. Luckily for me I found a doctor who could, and it only took going through a dozen doctors who were useless.
My experience with that last doctor was completely incomparable to any of the others, and I desperately wish there was a way to differentiate the two. Frankly, they don’t even seem like they should have the same job title any more than the attendant at a Jiffy Lube and a Lamborghini mechanic should both just be called “mechanics.”
SophisticatedHillbilly
11mo ago
For what it’s worth, the Njal’s Saga post got me to actually read the Saga. By the time I had done so, the post was gone, though.
No, because the current world is built around a 100 IQ. In a world where 130 IQ was average, systems would be built in such a way that 100 IQ people would struggle and be mostly useless/a net negative. This doesn’t necessarily mean we need to rebuild our systems around 70 IQ individuals, but it does call into question if building it around 100 is optimal. There are many ways that 70 IQs could be put to use with enough structure, though the increased structure would likely mean the 130s would be even more needlessly constrained than they already are.
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