Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?
by dctoedt on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:16AM
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> At each and every point in my life, I was working with the information I had at my disposal, each information having its own "weight" in my mind.
This. You play the hand you're dealt — and the hand you're dealt includes your "wiring" (brain anatomy, brain chemistry, etc.) and your "programming" (past experiences, etc.). And you try to learn what you can.
(Warning — tangent:) It all contributes to what I've come to think of as The Great Project [0] of helping to build a universe — where our Conway Game of Life moves (or our Boyd OODA Loop moves, if you prefer) are something like the following:
1. Aspire: Imagine some way in which the world could and should be different than (our mental model of) what it currently is.
2. Act — and while doing so: (A) remain open to new evidence and insights; and (B) seek the best for others as we do for ourselves, because to a certain extent we all operate behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance.
3. Learn: Update the mental model of what the world is, and also the mental model of what the world "should" be.
This. You play the hand you're dealt — and the hand you're dealt includes your "wiring" (brain anatomy, brain chemistry, etc.) and your "programming" (past experiences, etc.). And you try to learn what you can.
(Warning — tangent:) It all contributes to what I've come to think of as The Great Project [0] of helping to build a universe — where our Conway Game of Life moves (or our Boyd OODA Loop moves, if you prefer) are something like the following:
1. Aspire: Imagine some way in which the world could and should be different than (our mental model of) what it currently is.
2. Act — and while doing so: (A) remain open to new evidence and insights; and (B) seek the best for others as we do for ourselves, because to a certain extent we all operate behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance.
3. Learn: Update the mental model of what the world is, and also the mental model of what the world "should" be.
4. Repeat.
[0] https://www.questioningchristian.com/2006/06/metanarratives_...