[Noisebridge-discuss] So, how many people live at noisebridge now?

jim jim at well.com
Fri Oct 22 02:53:18 UTC 2010


   no, a few of us agreed to have a common place to plan. 
check it out. 



On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 16:22 -0700, meredith scheff wrote:
> did we just agree to continue to do nothing? I'm sure that will
> _totally_ solve the problem. 
> (/sarcasm).
> Where is it on the wiki? 
> m
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> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Ari Braginsky
> <contact at aribraginsky.com> wrote:
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
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>         On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Anselm Hook
>         <anselm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>                         Pretty much everything we do is on a
>                         case-by-case basis and it lets us
>                         not have Rules, which then we'd have to
>                         enforce, even if it didn't make
>                         sense to do so.  I'm all for case-by-case
>                         bases.
>                         
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>                 
>                 I like this statement in general. If our whole
>                 civilization could practice mindfulness we could
>                 probably avoid a lot of the horrible things that
>                 happen to people when they fall between the cracks.
>                 
>                 
>                 Admittedly - dealing with a situation on its own
>                 terms, taking the time to look at all the factors,
>                 weighing the best possible outcomes is hugely time
>                 consuming. The problem we face as humans is limited
>                 time, energy and cognitive resources to fully solve
>                 all the challenges we face - although given sufficient
>                 time we could produce better outcomes for any one of
>                 those challenges than any hard rule. As well of course
>                 the universe is so blisteringly complicated and
>                 outcomes so perverse that the side effects of any
>                 action we take almost always dominate over the
>                 intended consequences.
>                 
>                 
>                 Nevertheless I am still in favor of at least trying to
>                 be mindful and avoiding the fall to rule. It is good
>                 practice. And while the discussion may be raucous- the
>                 alternatives are often worse.
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