Re:82% aren’t passionate about their work
by baddox on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @06:25PM
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Is this really an issue? Why not just try to benchmark job performance instead of citing this ill-defined (and worse—self-reported) survey? If two people both do the exact same job and the same level of performance, and one claims to be more passionate than the other, does that really matter? This is essentially the philosophical zombie argument.
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Re:82% aren’t passionate about their work
by msbarnett on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @07:22PM
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I'm not sure how realistic your counter-example is. If I have two workers, one passionate about her job, the other disinterested and bored by it, is it really realistic to expect that the latter's output will never suffer because of their attitude compared to the former?
That would seem to fly in the face of our basic understanding of human psychology and intrinsic motivational factors. It's like the old canard about the "goodness" of a man who spends his life doing only good deeds while thinking only evil thoughts. Humans don't work like that.
Re:82% aren’t passionate about their work
by reinhardt on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @07:44PM
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There are quite a few factors that affect productivity besides passion: education, experience, concentration, deep thinking intelligence, quick thinking intelligence, and so on. All else being equal, it would be plausible to suggest that the passionate beats the disinterested one but in practice things are rarely equal.
Re:82% aren’t passionate about their work
by baddox on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @01:44AM
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In many cases, our basic understand of human psychology and intrinsic motivational factors is flawed (there are several articles and talks about how basic assumptions such as "higher salary implies higher productivity" aren't correct).
Either way, the whole point of the philosophical zombie thought experiment is that, unfortunately, reality/truth itself can be shown to not matter when analyzing human behavior, because the zombie would behave identically as the "normal" human, even though the realities/truths are quite different (the normal human experiences qualia while the p-zed does not).