Comments on: Influenced by Our Peers

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:58:21 +0000

Gustav:

Since it’s not actually going to happen, the point is to live as if I had to impress these people. It helps focus the mind on the important over the urgent.

Aretae:

Nothing little about it. All I can hope to do is ramp up my performance to match my confidence.

By: Stephen Gustav

Stephen Gustav — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:36:54 +0000

I don’t know that I’d want a slice off the top of humanity’s most incisive and wise sitting on my dread judgment panel.

Going the other way would likely be bad, too.

I’d like a selection of the gullible, the average, the easily swayed, thank you.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:55:27 +0000

“Let me put it this way: Have you ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons!”

By: Aretae

Aretae — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:45:31 +0000

Little cocky still, Alrenous?

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:45:45 +0000

It’s hard to reprogram the peer thing. But you can reprogram who your peers are.

On reflection, the fact I chose Aristotle and so on probably doesn’t help my o’erweening arrogance.

Still, fun exercise:
There was a Christian sect that believed that instead of Saint Peter, it was a jury that determined whether you got in.

So, jury of 12, who would you hope was on yours?

Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Alexander, Feynmann, Darwin, Faraday, Nietzsche, Kant, Siddhartha, Cowperthwaite, One of Patton or Rommel.

With some research I could do better…but this is a blog comment. I’d like to fit a Stuart in there, but meh.