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RE: I Don't Understand People Who Are Against Blocking on Facebook
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve come across a few. But very few and far between they are.
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve come across a few. But very few and far between they are.
They should be muted. No place for such folk on the interwebs. Old-school folk on a hip medium. Can't have that.
I guess my whole thing is, I’ve grown past the point of needing to show anyone how right I am.
I don’t give a toss, really.
I’m right very often. I make a difference never.
Nobody knows what really goes on anyway, in any field. All we have is models of reality. I try to find models that work well in practice, and if a better model presents itself, I'll adopt it. If a model fails to predict well, I reject it.
Don't care much if I support the "right" model, and I can live with not having a model that works in some fields; much better than just making something up and being religious about it. I can accept there are no working economic models, for instance. Doesn't keep me awake at night.
I do like coming up with models that work and that let me build things that work, there is that; that's where a difference can be made. Not sure how to make a difference in other ways, most certainly not by just being "right", and least of all by shouting about it.
Have I been muted yet?
Anyway, not feeling the urge to show you're right all the time does make for a more pleasant life, I think. And proving someone wrong is only important if you like someone and the consequences of their being wrong are severe. But I suppose it is called "trying to help" then.