Category Archives: self de-centralization

Copy Me, 3

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Cumulative concept of time, 8

Since my present-self have the memory of my younger self, my younger self is part of my present-self.   

1. What is the meaning of the “same” file?

If two files contain exactly the same data, they are the “same” file.

2. Memory is the definition of identity. 

Since I have the memory of my younger self, I am the same person as my younger self. Moreover, since I have more memory than my younger self, I am more than my younger self. My younger self is part of me.

3. If I am a book, my younger self is like the one with fewer chapters:

younger self ~ chapter 1,2,3       

older self ~ chapter 1,2,3,4,5,6

— Me@2011.07.10

— Me@2011.08.04

2011.08.04 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

好為人師 2

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（安：有人說過，不要好為人師。但是，我發覺我偏偏好為人師。我應怎樣改掉這壞習慣呢？）

「好為人師」未必是壞習慣。那要視乎你教人的目的，主要是為了教導別人，還是為了表現自己。

如果別人主動提問，你的意圖又是令聽者得益的話，「好為人師」就是好事。

如果你未經別人的同意，又或者你的意圖是為炫耀學識的話，「好為人師」就是壞事。

— Me@2010.11.26

— Me@2011.07.25

2011.07.25 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

好為人師

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（安：有人說過，不要好為人師。但是，我發覺我偏偏好為人師。我應怎樣改掉這壞習慣呢？）

比喻說，你拿了一個獎，才會想炫耀。當你拿了很多獎後，自然不再想炫耀：

第一，沒有必要：你拿了很多獎的話，即是你實力非凡。你不會再心虛時，就再沒有炫耀的動機。

第二，炫耀全部獎牌的話，工程浩大。

第三，炫耀部分獎牌的話，又要考慮拿哪一些，不拿哪一些出去，庸人自擾。

隨著你的知識逐漸增長，思考日漸成熟，你就自然不會再「好為人師」。

— Me@2010.07.19

— Me@2011.07.21

2011.07.21 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

The most powerful illusion

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One of the most powerful illusions of the human experience is the illusion that we’re seeing objective reality through our own perceptions. We can only see what we see.

— Christopher Nolan 

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

— Stephen R. Covey

2011.07.13 Wednesday ACHK

卡拉 OK

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Facebook is just another Karaoke:

Everyone sings.

Everyone wants to be listened.

But no one listens to others.

— Me@2011.07.02

2011.07.03 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Copy Me

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Philosopher John Locke published “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” in 1689, in which he proposed the following criterion for personal identity: if you remember thinking something in the past, then you are the same person as he or she who did the thinking. Later philosophers raised various logical snarls, most of them caused by applying Boolean logic, the prevalent logic system at the time. It has been proposed that modern fuzzy logic can solve those problems, showing that Locke’s basic idea is sound if one treats personal identity as a continuous rather than discrete value.

– Wikipedia

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2008.04.13 Saturday ACHK

防止愚善系統

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即使一個人企圖做好人，他也未必是好人。他可能因為人格有嚴重的缺失，導致他時常好心做壞事。而那個「人格缺失」，通常是「愚蠢」。

「好心做壞事」的殺傷力，往往同「壞心做壞事」不相伯仲。

而更麻煩的地方是，你勸諫一個「好心做壞事」的人不要再做壞事時，他會因為愚蠢，而不明白你在說什麼。他心目中以為，出於善意的，就一定是善行。

那是大錯特錯的。

— Me@2011.06.15

Many disasters in the world are due to dumb people trying to save the world.

—

2011.06.15 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

人海淘金術

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對於大部分人來說，你越對他們好，他們就會對你越差。只有小部分人，你對他們好的話，他們會反過來對你好。

（安：我同意你的講法。但是，如果你為了防範別人忘恩負義，而對其他人不好的話，那就會損失了一些潛在的好朋友。）

我沒有講過我會對人不好。

面對一個原本不相識的人，我第一步會對他好。然後，我會視乎他的回應，來決定下一步應該怎樣。如果對方都對我好的話，我會對他更好。如果對方對我不好的話，我不會再對他好。但是，我亦不會對他不好，因為，我會直情不再跟他相處。

人生苦短，不應花任何一秒在壞人身上。

— Me@2011.06.13

2011.06.13 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Make yesterday obsolete

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Both Page and Brin believed that the company should run like the Internet itself: fast-moving, bottom up, going to work every day to make yesterday obsolete.

— In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, p.158

2011.05.27 Friday ACHK

快樂之道

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Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies;

I came to centre my attention increasingly upon external objects:

the state of the world,

various branches of knowledge,

individuals for whom I felt affection.

– Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness p.14

— Me@2009.04.28

2011.05.20 Friday ACHK

大智若愚

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這段改篇自 2010 年 5 月 1 日的對話。

題目問你什麼，你就答什麼，不要答多，不要答少。千萬不要為了表演自己的數學知識，而添加額外的解釋，因為閱卷員不會有時間理會它們。

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（CKY：除了你的方法以外，我還想到這個方法。）

我的方法比你的方法好。你的方法要聰明的人才可以掌握；而我的方法任何人都可以掌握。你的方法要精神狀態好時才想得出來；而我的方法任何時候也可以想得出來，因為我的方法十分「愚蠢」，根本連想到不用想，就自然記得。

記住，考試時的唯一目標，是奪取最多的分數，而不是炫耀自己的智力。

— Me@2011.04.24

2011.04.24 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

不敵天氣 2

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You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather.

— Frank Skinner

你可以花一生的時間，令到自己受歡迎；但是，你的喪禮將會有多少人出席，還要視乎當日的天氣。

— Me@2010.07.16

2011.04.18 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Operating system 3

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No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.

— Bruce Perens

That’s why the best choice of software is often no software — and barring that, as little software as you can possibly get away with, and even then, only from the most reputable and reliable sources.

— Coding Horror

— by Jeff Atwood

The greatest of rulers hardly dwells upon the minds of his subjects,
Lesser than this they forever draw near and laud him with great praise,
Lesser than this the people are held in his frightening awe and fear,
Lesser than this the people revile and curse him.
   
太上，下知有之；
其次，親而譽之；
其次畏之；
其次侮之。

— Laozi (Wikisource translation)

2011.04.16 Saturday ACHK