Slides & conspiracies..

For an vulpine organ they speak very confidently of the f-o-w

https://xcancel.com/benln/status/1873459290562056566

Using kendō vocab I think what they're trying to say with f-o-w is to avoid 2 of the 4 fails: 疑, and (or at least?) 惑.

(interesting that 平常心 is unmarked, while in english the desired state of mind[heart] is marked)

No slides yet, but I finally dug up the quotation I'd promised you last year: Körner, The Pleasures of Counting (1996) p.413 ch.17 "Time and chance" in a footnote (arrived at via a path starting with Enigma decodes!):

> Social Darwinism applies the Darwinian doctrine of survival of the fittest to human society. Rich social Darwinists take wealth as the best indication of fitness to survive, academic social Darwinists take intellectual achievements as the best indication and so on. They are often haunted by the fear that the unfit do not understand this and may outbreed the fit.

疑 is a common failure mode for foxes, yes. 惑 might be interesting for me to consider in the musk-jobs case studies (roughly corresponding to where the confidence shall be reconsidered?) How about OCD? Subset of 惑? Could lead to failure-to-ship for designers..

https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-reentry-by-eric-berger

>Part of what makes “founder mode” so effective is that startup founders have both a compensation structure and social permission that lets them treat every single issue that comes up at work as if their family is about to die

(The field promotions and war stories also remind me of 1796-1797)

Aha thanks.

a quick de-Maistre-style counter response before I dive in

  social-darwinists.ch

Would you say (the proddy part of) CH culture is largely pre-1939 compared to the most of the rest of teutonia (some hills of ostmark excepted..& liechtenstein)

(Or even pre XVIII, leaving out AT et al if we review the antisemitism?)

Edit

非常口,平常心?

Update:

What sort of [social-]darwinist might KDA be??? (Ditto for Angus Deaton)

(Just trying to find out how I'd come across .. not as an organizational darwinist ???? ))

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-skilled-immi...

TIL: JS modelled Luggnagg on 蓬莱 (& thus struldbrugs on Tensens??? )

Edit: my oftcited dream of future days took place in a cavernous, subtidal (glass of scifi strength) shopping mall (consumerist pleasure dome) of the same (near) future..

On Jeju island

Edit: really appreciated WvO recording his early hopes.. have seen undergrads doing this, but a doc? a first for me!

https://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/alon/sites/mcb.alon/files/use...