• Apparently there was some sort of controversy about a site called [[content nation]] in the Fediverse, and people from [[Mastodon]] came across as conservative/resistant to change/unfriendly to newcomers. I am not surprised.
  • Good thing is I found [[wedistribute]] via the article linked in the node above, and I think I'm liking this site and maybe particularly a podcast they have called [[decentered]].
• I read about [[Jim Simons]] and the [[Medallion fund]] after watching [[Veritasium]]'s [[The Trillion Dollar Equation]].
• I read about [[Jizo]] a.k.a. [[Ksitigarbha]], which I now associate with number [[6]] (as he vowed to liberate beings in all six Buddhist realms).

• I still haven't figured out how to make [[silverbullet]] open its daily note where I want instead of Journal/Day/<date>, but maybe it won't be much longer :)
  • Thankfully in the Agora any and all of these will show up (just independently).
• The article on [[Peter Singer]] led me to read about [[higher and lower pleasures]] -- the whole article on [[utilitarianism]] is interesting.
  • TIL [[Karl Popper]] was called a [[negative utilitarian]] because of his preference to [[minimize suffering]]: "Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all."
• My knees hurt from [[Lägern]] but I have no regrets :D

2024-03-03

• How do you socialise something that has been privatised?

  • i.e. how do you enact [[deprivatisation]].

• Watched: [[Avengers: Age of Ultron]]

• Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)]]

  • [[Luddism]].
  • Claim: Free software movement was a form of Luddism.
  • Great example. Hackers were clearly not anti-technology, they were concerned about the enclosure of technology for capitalism.

• To raise [[children]], Laszlo [[Polgar]] setup an environment for [[autonomy]] and agency.
  • Polgar needed to work with his children, rather than telling them what to do.
  • The father's role was an enabler, an opener of ways.
  • The father's goal was to provide the "highest possible level of [[freedom]]".
  • They are not marionettes, but in a traditional [[school]] they are.
  • Polgar does not assert that raising competent children leads to happiness, but that they will at least have the same opportunities for happiness as normal children.
  • He did not like that older, more static leaders were followed instead of younger, more dynamic leaders.
  • Polgar rejected the [[middle]]. "Mediocrity, the orientation to the middle, I refuse out of principle."
  • Polgar was intent on quality.
  • Polgar saw himself as someone who shapes his own destiny.
  • Polgar was against compromise.
  • He preferred defeating obstacles to worrying about them.
  • Laszlo and his wife had the premise that every healthy child could be raised to be an outstanding person.
  • They believed that every outstanding person had a trainer who was obssessed.
  • “It is better not to say that geniuses are not often born; say rather that we do not often raise them.”
  • Polgar figured that people are shaped by the body they are born to, the effect of the [[environment]], and a 'self-[[creation]]' that happens from personal experimentation.
  • Great capability comes from [[creativity]] expressed in concrete [[action]].
  • "...every child born healthy is potentially a genius, and if one pays enough attention, they will in fact become one."
  • The ultimate goal is human happiness- which is enabled by genius.
  • "I criticize contemporary schools because they do not educate for life, they equalize everyone to a very low level, and in addition they do not tolerate the talented and those who diverge from the average."
  • "My daughters, who have never visited a [[school]], grew up much more in the context of real [[life]]."