[FRIAM] The whole story about Palantir

[glen]

IDK. Balance also seems like a metaphysical commitment, similar to equity, equality, egalitarianism, equilibrium, fairness. I think the only reason I'm not actually an anarchist is because I can't put any faith in ideas like balance. They're inherently optimistic. The high frequency, high dimensional stuff I interact with seems wholly unfair, unbalanced, ... always far from equilibrium. To believe otherwise feels fideistic.

But it just doesn't matter if you let it go.

On 6/24/25 5:02 PM, steve smith wrote:
> glen wrote:
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>> 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/
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> Good points all, but where am I going to get my endorphin/cortisol rushes from?
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> 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?
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> 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>?
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>     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.
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> 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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