Comments by "Christian Baune" (@programaths) on "The Officer Tatum"
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@1caramarie Well, no. As you are a psychologist, I can shorten my comment: primitive thinking. Life is a lottery, nothing more, nothing less. You can refuse a good hand, but can't create one. Those who create opportunities in an effective way are crooks. Hard word and dedication can get you far...unless you have bad luck. Now, if one abandon at the first failure, he is surely doomed to fail. The other way is not true. One can be dedicated and hard working and never get somewhere. Those are extremes and they exists. Hiding these extremes and making people 100% responsible of their fate is one of the best ways to deconstruct an individual. We wonder why so much people are broken ? This is one of the reasons. Lastly, even if I use simple words, my writing can be tough to digest. Read carefully. I never spoke about predestination (this to prevent a classical bias of association).
Let pick an example: me. I am born with autistic troubles, until age 3 I did not speak a word. My language unfolded within weeks with advanced vocabulary. Still, got interned my first 18 years in various institutions. That means that I was raised by the state in all the luxury one can imagine. BUT, I got lucky, happens I am gifted. I may have troubles to know kiss or shake hand, but I can solve very abstract problems like the ones in WAIS3R, Cattell and Raven tests. I can also write software and comprehend the abstraction within days if they are very complex, unless they are obfuscated due to my mental model. (I have a strong codification ability which is defeated when entropy is too high)
So, I naturally did sciences, learned quantum cryptography, got a bronze medal in an international scientific event. Create computer languages "just for fun", games and helping children learn computing. I even won a prize to a contest in a subject I touched a bit like 10 years ago. People say "congrats", it's like saying "you are 170cm, congrats". But when things goes smoothly with people, I am happy because all the learning and mimics got me through (this is where is my "hard work and dedication").
Can I do a phd ? Looking for a master for almost 3 years in a row and unable to pick it up for health reasons. Wanting to go abroad now that I have spare money, I can't!
See, I can just wait to be better. Dedication and hard work will not help me. Same for the beginning of my life, external causes gave me a rough start.
As you are an attorney, you may appreciate one of my feats: overruling one of your peers, so much that he tried to get me out of the trials. I am not an attorney and at that time I was living without any mean to heat myself and in an insalubre habitation, I had to go to public bathroom and it was hard to rest. Got to read all the required laws, consolidate them and challenge the other party. Oh, and in the process, I dismissed my free attorney as he was drowning the trial. Almost anyone else would have lost the trial, unless he is a specialized attorney. The cherry one the cake ? I had the luxury to tell the other party how incompetent he was because he tried to "twist" the reality and misquoted the law. Judge did not even budge. And the finale ? I did not even go to the conclusion. I knew that my binder would do a great job. It did. (No sane attorney would do that...I am not an attorney)
So, total BS. We can steer our development. We can't override it. In my slice of life, you should realize that I could go over because I was luckily well equipped. There is stupid people out there and it's not their fault. They can't become intelligent. That's destructive to bribe them.
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@1caramarie I warned you it would be a challenging read. You did not understood my writings, at least what you quoted.
"I can just wait to be better. Dedication and hard work will not help me."
I was speaking of health issues. The only remedy is TIME. This is one of the many example of when you can just WAIT and not screw yourself. (i.e. don't do white night when it takes you 2 weeks to recover one hour of missed sleep)
As for the beginning of my life, I wasn't free to do anything and creativity was punished. I had not control on adults and rules that were set.
So, I'll reiterate my point in short form:
In life, you only have a limited responsibility in you SUCCESS. As you wrote yourself, you gave a hand to your daughter. What if you did not ?
During my first 18 years, I wasn't free to learn as I would have wanted. I even got 3 of my self written Mathematics Almanach because I spent too many time on these.
What you are seeing is people being successful around you and you being successful. And it's very hard form someone to accept external causes when things go well and internal causes when thing goes bad. In fact, it's one of the strongest biases with reactance and confirmation one. You seems to fall for two of them.
To give you and idea of roughness, I won a Rotary Club price for the best evolution in life, I was ex aequo with someone who lost his parent and one of his legs and got over it quickly. I had NO way to interfere. Luckily, I am resilient as I was able to quickly rationalize the world and even did it excessively as a defense mechanism.
I am not doing the "pity party", just correcting a strong bias in today society where poor are poor because of them, people ugly because of them etc. That's all wrong and promote selfishness. I spend 6% of my time to care about children wanting to learn IT stuff...when I am not sharing open source projects.
I could say to a child "common, make same effort, you are whining and making no effort to go over". Instead, I try to understand. Hard to develop a game when one has spatial problems, unless you can go around and show the vectors behind. Or even simpler, when a child do not understand "2-3" because it makes no sense and you tell him "it goes the other way around, so we put `-` in front". Handling children make your point of view totally flip, because
The attitude of "everyone own his destiny" is BS for selfish and egocentric people to feel good. It's also very rewarding to be able to say: "I did it alone, all by myself".
As for intelligence, this is something like weight and height. One is not responsible for that, only for decreasing it (bad hygiene of life). Neither I find it logical to congratulate a smart one because he did something...smart. To give you an example, it's like congratulating you because you wrote a comment on Youtube. It's just less relatable, so, harder to comprehend. Oh, congratulation, you can ride the roller-coaster because of your size:-D See how funny it can be ?
And I'll stop on that because, by experience, I know that it's almost impossible to deconstruct these biases without rehearsing.
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