The utterly annoying MacBook Pro
Since last year (around November) my MacBook startet acting weird. At first I got a random “hash mismatch” warning. A fast Google search showed that it may be a start of serious hardware issues — the hard drive started rotting. It was my warining call to start thinking about a backup strategy. The whole day was spent making a full hard drive backup. I rebooted my computer and the warning disappeared. Few days later – nothing. A few more weeks pass by – still nothing.
6 months later it relapsed and my computer started going crazy: random shutdowns and crashes, failed booting, Chrome tabs would shut down during important work. Then files started rotting – I couldn't open my older files and sometimes even applications. „The file/application is corrupt”.
This situation made me think: How reliable is technology? Would I trust it with things that I care for?
Poor Charlie’s Almanack
On November 28th died a great man named Charlie Munger. The famous Buffet/Munger duo has…
Testing (or copy-pasting) Munger's talks
Liking/loving tendency A newly hatched baby goose is programmed, through the economy of its genetic program, to love and follow the first creature that is nice to it, which is almost always its mother. But if the mother goose is not present right after the hatching and a man is there instead, the gosling will love and follow the man, who becomes a sort of substitute mother.
Somewhat similarly, a newly arrived human is born to like and love under the normal and abnormal triggering outcomes for its kind. Perhaps the strongest inborn tendency to love, ready to be triggered, is that of the human mother for its child. On the other hand, the similar child-loving behavior of a mouse can be eliminated by the deletion of a single gene, which suggests there is some sort of triggering gene in a mother mouse as well as in a gosling.
Each child, like a gosling, will almost surely come to like and love, not only as driven by its sexual nature but also in social groups not limited to its genetic or adoptive family. Current extremes of romantic love almost surely did not occur in man’s remote past. Our early human ancestors were surely more like apes triggered into mating in a pretty mundane fashion.
And what will a man naturally come to like and love, apart from his parent, spouse, and child? Well, he will like and love being liked and loved. So many a courtship competition will be won by a person displaying exceptional devotion, and man will generally strive lifelong for the affection and approval of many people not related to him.