Because if a chimp knows you are watching it, it has the ability to change its behavior. Then you have to react. It reacts to your reaction and its turtles all the way down.
The large point is chimps have 3 inch brains. Which creates upper bounds on what they can understand and control. And to survive and cope with the fact that they cant control everything in the universe they start making up stories. If only...
For some, tis not about Quality but about Control. "If x y z happens I feel safe/in control". Changing anything about it = unsafe/the sky may fall.
Same logic scales up to social level if you notice what large groups burn cash on. The only way to reduce the cash burn is to give them something else to do that makes them feel safe and in control. Which is not for the faint of heart.
Iran already has a lot of issues. If the regime does collapse over night ala Soviets/Arab Spring by just making some mistake while reacting to all this pressure, I dont look forward to the amount of gloating Trump and Netanyahu are going to do.
I learned recently that there’s a deep public disgust of US meddling in Iranian self-determination going back to the 50s. I don’t know how the public feels about Israel but I’m guessing it’s not popular. The people wanted change but I suspect there’s consensus “not like this.”
The regime has been decapitated and it lives on. They planned for this for decades and built a resistant decentralized command structure.
Their army survived the first shock and is now engaged in a decentralized gorilla conflict (as they always planned) and everyone knows how that ends. (When US gives up without accomplishing anything and goes away)
My point was the regime may collapse for other reasons. Just like the USSR. There was no dearth of plans there and no lack of effort of US trying to destablize them.
Trump has done them a favor by creating a generation of Iranian patriots who put their anti-fundamentalism at a lower priority than their disgust at the US and Israel.
People created limited liability and private equity. Fiction is not something you get rid off. Its something you live with. It is a permanent side effect of how the over rated Humam Brain works. The brain makes predictions over multiple time horizons. When there are contradictions between these predictions how is the 3 inch chimp brain supposed to handle it while not splitting? Make up a story for the sake of coherence. Everyone is doing it everyday. They are all making up fictions to handle unpredictability.
There are a finite number of legislative girders underpinning the judicial capacity to support these fictions. When they're removed, it will not be legally possible to maintain them. They are not a product of nature, they are a product of real humans, and as such are subject to human change and intervention. They are among the least durable constructs we interact with.
The key is factories ideally are mobile. Follow the winds. Come online and go offline when the wind blows. Use as much free energy as possible to hit yearly production targets and then take the rest of the year off.
It takes a village. Especially if the problem is systemic and not just the individual. When you count the number of people with some addiction or the other the total represents how many people havent found anything better to do within the system. Thats like finding cells in your brain that are busy looping randomly not fully attached in some useful way to the system. Ofcourse you can zap them and isolate them or remove them but the imaginative solution is reattach them and make them useful to the system in some way. Cause the brains that do will have larger capacities and capabilities than brains that dont.
"Competent" people are not valuable and over rated because they will flake out in such jobs when the group holds them responsible for all sorts of things they have no control over. They are the first people who recognize lumits. Their own, their teams and the systems. But people dont want to hear about Limits. They want saviors and messaihs. They want fantasy and magic. So the system runs not optimized for efficiency but illusion of control, for damping of anxieties and fears.
Why does sycophantic behavior and attachement/dependence even emerge and exist in the chimp troupe?
AI was not required to produce these behaviors.
Prosocial interactions are important for certain groups to stay sane not everyone. The evidence is in the fact every culture has produced some form of monastic life. And we have major religions like Buddhism built and surving for thousands of years on foundations of detachment. Thats is not an accident because people arent all alike. Philosophy even teaches "Detachment and Flourishing" - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/lecture-8
Your moat only matters until you’ve solved a real user need. Once the need is clearly being met, the moat matters less than trust, adoption, and execution.
If yes - I wonder what does it mean for a product.
Do you mean that after need is met (PMF reached) no one can beat:
- brand
- distribution
- support
- community?
I said your needs. Think about why you are doing what you are doing. And at what point that need is met.
So if your need is financial then you say my need is to recover my costs(time you put in * hourly rate+hardware costs+energy costs etc etc) + some profit. Once you have achieved that the moat becomes less important right?
If the need is not financial but this project is going to look good on my resume and get me more interesting work, then the moment you do get a better job the moat doesnt matter.
So I was encouraging you to think about why you do what you do. Cuz after you feel like you have meet your own needs moats matter less.
The large point is chimps have 3 inch brains. Which creates upper bounds on what they can understand and control. And to survive and cope with the fact that they cant control everything in the universe they start making up stories. If only...
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