[FRIAM] The whole story about Palantir

[steve smith]

glen wrote:

> Yes. Realism is often couched as a third way between optimism and 
> pessimism. But all 3 seem to me to assume some kind of metaphysical 
> commitment: optimism ← outcomes trend good, pessimism ← outcomes trend 
> bad, realism ← there is an outside world and we have access to it. But 
> I propose a different third way (maybe a fourth way if we place them 
> all on a 2d plane): doubt or agnosticism. Just stop putting your faith 
> into anything, negative or positive, real or fake, and you'll be just 
> fine. Just let go... 8^D https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36285938/

Good points all, but where am I going to get my endorphin/cortisol 
rushes from?

Skepticism, Pragmatism, Realism as third-way/middle-way/objective-way, 
all have a duplicitous feel to me sometimes?  see your sticky, raise you 
a smarmy?

I'll see our "middle way"s and raise us a Beauty Way (hózhóní) 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/h%C3%B3zh%C3%B3n%C3%AD>?  the WooWooWay? 
or (nod to Stephen and DaveW) WuWei <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei>?

    The *Diné Beauty Way* (/Hózhóji/, in Navajo) is a foundational
    concept in Diné (Navajo) philosophy. It is *not merely aesthetic*,
    but a deep *cosmological, ethical, and spiritual path* — a way of
    *living in balance* with the world, with the elements, with oneself,
    and with the unseen.

I'm doubting Palantir (or SpaceX) has a "middle way", much less a 
"Beauty Way"... more like Nick/Stephen's MOTH 
<https://ideas.repec.org/a/jas/jasssj/2005-50-2.html#:~:text=In%20this%20study%2C%20we%20modify,a%20wide%20range%20of%20conditions.> 
(my way or the highway) at best?   George hallucinated? that MOTH stands 
for "Mirror Of The Heart", a more generous than MyWayHighway?

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