Complexity Is Simpler Than It Appears

@qonphuceingey

Computer scientist who enjoys learning. I would love to think about any thought or problem or issue or interesting thing you are thinking about. I find everything fascinating and think everything is worth investigating!

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I’ve previously said that all emotions exist for a reason, as a solution to a problem. But I’ve been wondering about frustration. Why did we evolve to get frustrated? I don’t mean frustration at a person, but at a difficulty. If you give a person enough paper and pencils, they can solve any intellectual problem they like, and can go off and get the stuff they need for it. So why do we get frustrated at difficult problems? What possible advantage is there to giving up on something, when most problems have a solution?

I assume this means most problems we faced were not solvable, and it was more efficient to move on. Having seen how far society has come, this is strange to me, as it seems that’s clearly false. Perhaps this indicates that our progress is not necessarily due to our intellectual knowledge building upon itself, but resource knowledge. Finding fire and then coal probably had a bigger impact than anything else.

In the modern day, I think there is very little use for frustration. If you spend enough time on a problem (particularly since someone has likely solved it before for you), you can find a solution. But if you find yourself frustrated, it probably means you lack some resource, or piece of information, that you should go look for instead of staring at the issue for longer.

#philosophy #frustration #learning #problem solving

homunculus-argument

You ever encounter someone online that has such baffling ideas of how the world works that it mostly just makes you impressed by how chill they are about living in the world they clearly think they live in?

Just a while ago scrolled past a conversation where one guy found out in real time that women do not in fact have an unfathomable ability to endure pain. Like he wasn't arguing that women can't feel pain as strongly as men do or anything, but he had assumed that since women have periods and everything, they're just trained from childhood to push through and remain functional in amounts of pain that would incapacitate a man. It felt logical to him, he had encountered womens' conversations about how doctors don't believe them when they report pain because idk a man in an equal amount of pain would be screaming on the floor about it.

For the sake of context, this conversation came about when he remarked that it hadn't registered to him that it was supposed to be seen as uncanny and unsettling that a 17-year-old girl is nonchalant about being able to stitch her own wounds. He just thought that women can just. do that.

I like the post but the example seems flawed, because women do have the ability to bear more pain than men, specifically amounts that stop a man from being able to move. Have you ever witnessed those period emulator machines? Childbirth? Spoken to tattoo artists about who’s better? It not only seems like women can bear more pain, but I’ve had multiple conversations with women who also think they can.

And you just mentioned two more cases in the post about doctors and a girl stitching her own fucking wounds (? Wtf btw)

What actually gives you the idea that they can’t bear more pain??

homunculus-argument

Did you miss the part where this guy was surprised to learn that an average woman is not capable of stitching her own wounds? He had assumed that this was a normal thing that a woman could plausibly do. He thought that female pain tolerance goes up to doing self-surgery. He was under the false assumption that a woman casually doing her own sutures is not unheard of. He was thinking a thing which was not true, and therefore he was surprised to learn that it is not true. The idea he had about the extent of how far women can withstand pain was incorrect. Hearing that it was incorrect was a surprise to him, because he did not expect it. The truth was unexpected by him. While an average woman cannot sew her own stitches, he had the misconception that one could. His concept of how the world works was incorrect.

I don't know how to Mojo Jojo this any harder.

I did miss that part, since you didn’t say that part. You said he wasn’t surprised to learn that a girl was capable of self surgery, which is a different sentence.

"[He] remarked that it hadn't registered to him that it was supposed to be seen as uncanny and unsettling that a 17-year-old girl is nonchalant about being able to stitch her own wounds. He thought women could just. Do that."

“Which is a different sentence”

"You didn't say that part"

*points out exactly when that part was said*

"nuh-uh, that doesn't count"

If you look carefully, they were claiming he thought the average woman can do their own stitches. Do you see any part in the first post where that was said? Because mentioning he thinks one specific 17 year old girl can does not imply he thinks every woman can.

Yeah, the part where OP clearly stated "He thought women could just. Do that." directly after the sentence describing the aforementioned hypothetical 17-year-old. The sentence I placed in bold and italics. That one. I don't know how the hell you read those two adjecent sentences and went "hm, yep, completely unrelated to each other."

You know what, I actually did completely skip over those words, that is my bad.

hey babe im gonna be home late tonight do you mind picking up dinner. yeah sorry the king has us working over time, some fuckin egghead sat on the wall and had a GREAT fall. we've got all the men working on this but idk if we're gonna be able to put him back together again. yeah we've tried the horses. ok bye love you.

twentybrokenipodclassics

the postal service names their shit exactly like how a 16 y.o. names angsty fanfic

punk-squirrely-ghost

Explain.

twentybrokenipodclassics

try and tell me literally any one of these would not fit above a short story about two wholly random men from the MCU fingering each other, or possibly 12 chapters of one or more characters from a CW show being in high school while having a photogenic but terminal kind of cancer. try.

twentybrokenipodclassics

ok so i want to say in hindsight i think i could probably have been clearer

i hope they never stop using floppy disk icons to indicate saving your file. doesn't matter how obsolete they are it's like honouring someone with a portrait on your currency

homunculus-argument

You ever encounter someone online that has such baffling ideas of how the world works that it mostly just makes you impressed by how chill they are about living in the world they clearly think they live in?

Just a while ago scrolled past a conversation where one guy found out in real time that women do not in fact have an unfathomable ability to endure pain. Like he wasn't arguing that women can't feel pain as strongly as men do or anything, but he had assumed that since women have periods and everything, they're just trained from childhood to push through and remain functional in amounts of pain that would incapacitate a man. It felt logical to him, he had encountered womens' conversations about how doctors don't believe them when they report pain because idk a man in an equal amount of pain would be screaming on the floor about it.

For the sake of context, this conversation came about when he remarked that it hadn't registered to him that it was supposed to be seen as uncanny and unsettling that a 17-year-old girl is nonchalant about being able to stitch her own wounds. He just thought that women can just. do that.

I like the post but the example seems flawed, because women do have the ability to bear more pain than men, specifically amounts that stop a man from being able to move. Have you ever witnessed those period emulator machines? Childbirth? Spoken to tattoo artists about who’s better? It not only seems like women can bear more pain, but I’ve had multiple conversations with women who also think they can.

And you just mentioned two more cases in the post about doctors and a girl stitching her own fucking wounds (? Wtf btw)

What actually gives you the idea that they can’t bear more pain??

homunculus-argument

Did you miss the part where this guy was surprised to learn that an average woman is not capable of stitching her own wounds? He had assumed that this was a normal thing that a woman could plausibly do. He thought that female pain tolerance goes up to doing self-surgery. He was under the false assumption that a woman casually doing her own sutures is not unheard of. He was thinking a thing which was not true, and therefore he was surprised to learn that it is not true. The idea he had about the extent of how far women can withstand pain was incorrect. Hearing that it was incorrect was a surprise to him, because he did not expect it. The truth was unexpected by him. While an average woman cannot sew her own stitches, he had the misconception that one could. His concept of how the world works was incorrect.

I don't know how to Mojo Jojo this any harder.

I did miss that part, since you didn’t say that part. You said he wasn’t surprised to learn that a girl was capable of self surgery, which is a different sentence.

"[He] remarked that it hadn't registered to him that it was supposed to be seen as uncanny and unsettling that a 17-year-old girl is nonchalant about being able to stitch her own wounds. He thought women could just. Do that."

“Which is a different sentence”

"You didn't say that part"

*points out exactly when that part was said*

"nuh-uh, that doesn't count"

If you look carefully, they were claiming he thought the average woman can do their own stitches. Do you see any part in the first post where that was said? Because mentioning he thinks one specific 17 year old girl can does not imply he thinks every woman can.

And it also doesn’t mean he thinks there aren’t women who can’t

what-even-is-thiss

Me when someone else has a heavy accent when speaking English: That accent is charming and I can tell they put in a lot of effort to learn English.

Me when I have a heavy accent speaking another language: They are going to shoot me the second I open my mouth aren’t they

homunculus-argument

You ever encounter someone online that has such baffling ideas of how the world works that it mostly just makes you impressed by how chill they are about living in the world they clearly think they live in?

Just a while ago scrolled past a conversation where one guy found out in real time that women do not in fact have an unfathomable ability to endure pain. Like he wasn't arguing that women can't feel pain as strongly as men do or anything, but he had assumed that since women have periods and everything, they're just trained from childhood to push through and remain functional in amounts of pain that would incapacitate a man. It felt logical to him, he had encountered womens' conversations about how doctors don't believe them when they report pain because idk a man in an equal amount of pain would be screaming on the floor about it.

For the sake of context, this conversation came about when he remarked that it hadn't registered to him that it was supposed to be seen as uncanny and unsettling that a 17-year-old girl is nonchalant about being able to stitch her own wounds. He just thought that women can just. do that.

I like the post but the example seems flawed, because women do have the ability to bear more pain than men, specifically amounts that stop a man from being able to move. Have you ever witnessed those period emulator machines? Childbirth? Spoken to tattoo artists about who’s better? It not only seems like women can bear more pain, but I’ve had multiple conversations with women who also think they can.

And you just mentioned two more cases in the post about doctors and a girl stitching her own fucking wounds (? Wtf btw)

What actually gives you the idea that they can’t bear more pain??

homunculus-argument

Did you miss the part where this guy was surprised to learn that an average woman is not capable of stitching her own wounds? He had assumed that this was a normal thing that a woman could plausibly do. He thought that female pain tolerance goes up to doing self-surgery. He was under the false assumption that a woman casually doing her own sutures is not unheard of. He was thinking a thing which was not true, and therefore he was surprised to learn that it is not true. The idea he had about the extent of how far women can withstand pain was incorrect. Hearing that it was incorrect was a surprise to him, because he did not expect it. The truth was unexpected by him. While an average woman cannot sew her own stitches, he had the misconception that one could. His concept of how the world works was incorrect.

I don't know how to Mojo Jojo this any harder.

I did miss that part, since you didn’t say that part. You said he wasn’t surprised to learn that a girl was capable of self surgery, which is a different sentence.

"[He] remarked that it hadn't registered to him that it was supposed to be seen as uncanny and unsettling that a 17-year-old girl is nonchalant about being able to stitch her own wounds. He thought women could just. Do that."

“Which is a different sentence”

"You didn't say that part"

*points out exactly when that part was said*

"nuh-uh, that doesn't count"

If you look carefully, they were claiming he thought the average woman can do their own stitches. Do you see any part in the first post where that was said? Because mentioning he thinks one specific 17 year old girl can does not imply he thinks every woman can.

#I like the meme format attempt at literary analysis

what-even-is-thiss

My dad is watching this historical drama and he’s like “there’s too much kissing. I thought there would be more politics” and I said “well for every person like you there’s someone else watching a political drama saying ‘there’s too much politics I thought there would be more kissing’” and for some reason that made him laugh so hard he almost crashed the car

I'm not gonna lie the secret to success for a great many people is absolutely stimulant abuse

Wait hold on what was that

homunculus-argument

You ever encounter someone online that has such baffling ideas of how the world works that it mostly just makes you impressed by how chill they are about living in the world they clearly think they live in?

Just a while ago scrolled past a conversation where one guy found out in real time that women do not in fact have an unfathomable ability to endure pain. Like he wasn't arguing that women can't feel pain as strongly as men do or anything, but he had assumed that since women have periods and everything, they're just trained from childhood to push through and remain functional in amounts of pain that would incapacitate a man. It felt logical to him, he had encountered womens' conversations about how doctors don't believe them when they report pain because idk a man in an equal amount of pain would be screaming on the floor about it.

For the sake of context, this conversation came about when he remarked that it hadn't registered to him that it was supposed to be seen as uncanny and unsettling that a 17-year-old girl is nonchalant about being able to stitch her own wounds. He just thought that women can just. do that.

I like the post but the example seems flawed, because women do have the ability to bear more pain than men, specifically amounts that stop a man from being able to move. Have you ever witnessed those period emulator machines? Childbirth? Spoken to tattoo artists about who’s better? It not only seems like women can bear more pain, but I’ve had multiple conversations with women who also think they can.

And you just mentioned two more cases in the post about doctors and a girl stitching her own fucking wounds (? Wtf btw)

What actually gives you the idea that they can’t bear more pain??

homunculus-argument

Did you miss the part where this guy was surprised to learn that an average woman is not capable of stitching her own wounds? He had assumed that this was a normal thing that a woman could plausibly do. He thought that female pain tolerance goes up to doing self-surgery. He was under the false assumption that a woman casually doing her own sutures is not unheard of. He was thinking a thing which was not true, and therefore he was surprised to learn that it is not true. The idea he had about the extent of how far women can withstand pain was incorrect. Hearing that it was incorrect was a surprise to him, because he did not expect it. The truth was unexpected by him. While an average woman cannot sew her own stitches, he had the misconception that one could. His concept of how the world works was incorrect.

I don't know how to Mojo Jojo this any harder.

I did miss that part, since you didn’t say that part. You said he wasn’t surprised to learn that a girl was capable of self surgery, which is a different sentence.

"[He] remarked that it hadn't registered to him that it was supposed to be seen as uncanny and unsettling that a 17-year-old girl is nonchalant about being able to stitch her own wounds. He thought women could just. Do that."

“Which is a different sentence”

#at least you’re right about tumblr reading comprehension

innerchildabortionclinic

New argument strategy dropped

i think i tend to forget how good boredom is for creativity because we're all so addicted to numbing ourselves with screens and stimulation. but standing in the shower or going for a walk with no music or just sitting in your bedroom without being allowed to touch any screens & all of a sudden i have multiple new projects to start, a solution to a months-long plot problem & 4 new original characters

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