[FRIAM] are we how we behave?

[Marcus Daniels]

If person with skill 1 delegates to individuals with distinct skills 2 and 3 and person with skill 3 delegates to individuals with skills 4 and 5 the kind of overlap of the kind you mention still can occur.     If developing any these skills takes decades, why is it important that everyone have some practical understanding of the other skills?   More importantly, why should we ever want to decrease the total number of skills?   So that we can `relate' to one another and keep the peace (be luddites)?  

On 3/6/19, 4:00 PM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

    I think your argument is damaged by the inclusion of "world class", "top cited", etc.  Such competitive reframings of capability/merit are the evidence that social darwinism, capitalism, and neoliberalism are failures as -isms.  Whether one plans the *best* invasion, is the fastest/best diaper changer, etc. is irrelevant.  What matters is whether delegation to an other/specialist *requires* some degree of understanding of what it is being delegated.
    
    I.e. do I simply take my car to the mechanic so she can *fix* it?  Or do I take my car to the mechanic so that she can replace the alternator because I've already done a diagnostic on the battery and know it's fine?  And is the former or the latter more indicative of general intelligence?
    
    On 3/6/19 1:29 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
    > Life has finite length and the rate of learning is finite.   Individuals aren’t going to learn how to do everything.   It isn’t even helpful to write down a list of `everything’ and say go learn that.  Because it just insults the vastness of everything, and assumes that collectively we see even a little of it.    Why not throw “become a world class violinist” or “become the top cited researcher in string theory” or “break the two hour barrier on the marathon” into the mix too?
    
    
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