You can't remember everything

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diyoTo3Co08

Research suggests there's a reason you can't remember much from your childhood: new memories are replacing the old ones.

Another reason: One doesn't have traumatic memories.

I feel the reason why I still remember is - I have traumatic experiences which I have found consistent with my life since childhood, and over time, these have become reinforced.

Perhaps memory replacement is a happier, less stressful, anxious or depressing thing.

An account of the State

1. Immorality is defined by universally un-preferable behavior, or that which causes the group, organization or society to become unsustainable.

2. An acceptance of immorality (eg. an inversion of values - helping others and empathy are weak and bad, violence and aggression towards others is good) is caused by adverse childhood experiences - trauma. However, not all adverse childhood experiences lead to an acceptance of immorality. Most people grow out of overt aggression eventually.

3. An acceptance of immorality means a greater tendency towards immoral behavior or support thereof.

4. The ability to discern truths and information from noise, complexity and false hood is known as intelligence. General intelligence is measured by calibrated IQ tests. There may be many different kinds of cognitive tasks, but much is predicated upon general intelligence.

5. Ability to create disinformation for control is also predicated upon general intelligence.

6. Intelligence arises out of the never-ending adversarial game between collective control and human desire for greater freedom.

7. Everyone is capable of extreme aggression. If you read the book "Ordinary Men", you would realize just how remarkably simple any working-class man can become a cold-blooded murderer who shoots pregnant women in the back of the head within hours, days. 

The training of human beings to not only follow orders, but to be excited and enthusiastic about violent aggression towards others is an exact science repeated in all armed forces and "disciplined services" everywhere.

8. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. The problem is never "police violence" - the true problem is government is violent aggression. If you don't see this, insist on not paying any taxes and see what the tax collector does.

9. 'The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money'

10. The trouble with democracy is when people learn to vote other people's money, benefits into flowing their way.

11. Another trouble with democracy is it is a trap that grants legitimacy and consent to aggression.

12. Government, more than religion, is not only a matter of faith, but even better accepted and not questioned. 

13. Petitioning, protesting government makes it stronger and gives it a perceived need, justification for existence.

14. Fighting a government only puts another government in place, or creates a vacuum which is filled by another government.

15. The reason why we feel greater liberty and notions of rights today is because it increases motivation and productivity.

16. To increase liberty, either reduce size and scope of government, and/or increase the link between productivity and liberty.

Work, Academic papers and Applications

Recently, I told someone at work that I was learning how to digest, summarize and write academic papers faster. And they went "ugh".

I got a problem with that attitude.

Now, I fully understand that academia is like an ivory tower. And no, I also have no interest in that.

But I am also very, very keen (to the point of desperation) to work on something cutting-edge, something few or none have done before.
I want to understand how to extend knowledge and apply that knowledge commercially.

On Software Development "sprints"

In software development, we have this word called sprint, which describes a 2 week cycle - a period for which work is planned.

I like the word "sprint". Because I have generally felt slow, I could never quite understand this idea of a sprint.

Why the solution that fixes the fundamental issue does not always win out?

Given a holistic solution and a specific, more logically direct solution, however much investment is required that does not require as much structural change, there is a bias towards the specific solution.

Example.

Problem:
Patient with heart disease.
Clearly caused by dietary issues and overeating.
Dietary problems caused by mental wellness issues.

Solution:
Drugs targeting the heart disease.
Short pep-talk about healthier eating.

I wonder how we can do better.

This is Spot On: Anxiety and Depression at Work