by viburnum on 6/24/24, 6:29 AM with 10 comments
by ds_opseeker on 6/25/24, 2:48 PM
Our society thinks it is normal to have a creative work evaluated by accounting, but never the reverse.
It would be fun to reverse that. "Ok, Jones, you made a profit of 30M, but we don't really see that you released that much creativity. We're going to have to cancel your project."
by DrScientist on 6/26/24, 3:26 PM
1. Are the things that are being measured the right things?
ie for teachers, you might look a pupils future job prospects, suicide rates, incarnation rates, or some measure of happiness, rather than the immediate test scores.
The wrong targets can cause damaging distortions.
2. Often the aim is to reduce poor performance by being prescriptive - but you have to be careful not to do that by reducing variation at both sides ( ie which includes constraining high performers ).
by xhevahir on 6/25/24, 6:34 AM
by ysofunny on 6/25/24, 5:29 PM
freewill will first turn into a political debate, then an economic issue. finally it'll be realized as too expensive for "average joes" and hence we will have an answer to whether the universe is deterministic. A resounding YES. equivalently, we will know if we have free will, a resounding NO for that would not be as efficient.