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Needless to say, this would have serious application outside of schools as well. | Needless to say, this would have serious application outside of schools as well. | ||
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| + | == Impedance Matching == | ||
| + | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching In electronics, impedance matching is the practice of designing the input impedance of an electrical load or the output impedance of its corresponding signal source to maximize the power transfer or minimize signal reflection from the load.] | ||
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| + | Might this concept apply to many other fields? | ||
| + | * Does Ching in Tai Chi match impedance of relaxed strike with organs rather than muscles? | ||
| + | * Is there impedance matching in information? Logic and rationality and strong data having low impedance? | ||
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| + | == Controlled psychological experiments using the same subject repeatedly. == | ||
| + | Horrible idea: use of drugs that prevent memory formation to perform controlled psychological experiments over and over on the same human subject. May be useful for interrogation as well. Possibly OK if volunteers used. | ||
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| + | == Torah/OT as a sourcebook for exploring various game-theoretic situations. == | ||
| + | My simple heuristic for understanding the Torah/OT is to consider it a sourcebook for exploring various game-theoretic situations. You have your tricksters such as in Jacob and Esau, liars, people doing whatever they can to survive and compete. And you have your tyrants, including the one played by god. In terms of survival lessons, it is important to consider the option of toadying to the tyrant by conceding that whatever he chooses is good. Genocide is a good thing for your tribe when you can get away with it. Etc. | ||
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| + | At certain relative levels of power, we can be partly constrained by ideas of justice. At higher levels of power, those constraints fail. The Torah/OT considers both of those situations, which is why there is so much atrocity in it. Recognizing when you can seize a low-consequence opportunity for a high-consequence gain is very adaptive. | ||
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| + | Modern liberals aim to make a just society by providing checks and balances to achieve some constraint by justice even of the highest levels of power. At least to members of our society: we are reluctant to hobble ourselves in our dealings with outsiders who are not checked by our mechanisms of justice. Else the outsiders may have an advantage over us. | ||
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| + | So yes, Dawkins is right that the god of the bible is an unpleasant character. As such, he is useful for teaching some methods of surviving unpleasant characters that you cannot defeat. Religious Judaism makes the mistake of believing in the fictions. Cultural Judaism is a survival-oriented, opportunistic, conservative and Machievellian tradition that can align with modern liberalism in most situations. IMHO. | ||
| + | Originally at: [http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2011/03/21/justifying-evil/#more-2021]. | ||
== Acorn satiety == | == Acorn satiety == | ||
