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Jan. 14th, 2007 11:17 pmWell this weekend past went less than totally swimmingly. But I think that I don't want to remember the things that I have to groan about.
It is funny about memory. It amazes me how many things I have forgotten about my own life and apparently how easily I did so. Especially since there are all sorts of things I'd rather not remember that come all to easily to mind. I don't know how much I've learned from them either. It's too bad I couldn't be left with some sort of instinct of how to handle situations without actually remember having been in them before. I wonder if that is how it would be if a person got old enough. Unable to remember having been in a snowstorm before specifically, but able to do the right things when going into a slide or something. I suppose that's what the reincarnation idiots are on about. I used to think what was the point of a past life if you couldn't remember it, makes no functional difference except as an excuse to treat people like shit. They're still idiots though, because it doesn't happen and too many of them were famous people.
The worst thing about life is that just as we start to get a handle on it we are ready to kip off. It will be the most amazing change ever when people can learn skills and lessons without the pain of experience. I don't think I've ever read any science fiction or fantasy that explores that concept properly. What would it mean if when one person learns a skill he can pass that skill on perfectly to even just one other person? When the skill of a watchmaker won't die with him? Will the society quickly plateau because everyone gets so good at things instantly? It could either be great or a disaster for the old workers. They could either have one more item to go into their retirement, the sale of their intangible experience to a younger worker, or it could remove the last incentive companies have to retain their older workers.
Though perhaps human skills will be vastly depreciated long before we get to the point of being able to access each other's skills. Amazing how I can turn anything into a skiffy plot point. Hear I am contemplating my weekend and it turns into this.
Went to Denver. Didn't meet with Roel. Did meet up with Aran and Danny. Went with them to Oshima Ramen, that was good. The going out to drink didn't work out as well. Went to Rose's. Brunch was quiet. The drive home was snowy, but less stressful due to having sunglasses to cut the snow glare. It is very cold out.
It is funny about memory. It amazes me how many things I have forgotten about my own life and apparently how easily I did so. Especially since there are all sorts of things I'd rather not remember that come all to easily to mind. I don't know how much I've learned from them either. It's too bad I couldn't be left with some sort of instinct of how to handle situations without actually remember having been in them before. I wonder if that is how it would be if a person got old enough. Unable to remember having been in a snowstorm before specifically, but able to do the right things when going into a slide or something. I suppose that's what the reincarnation idiots are on about. I used to think what was the point of a past life if you couldn't remember it, makes no functional difference except as an excuse to treat people like shit. They're still idiots though, because it doesn't happen and too many of them were famous people.
The worst thing about life is that just as we start to get a handle on it we are ready to kip off. It will be the most amazing change ever when people can learn skills and lessons without the pain of experience. I don't think I've ever read any science fiction or fantasy that explores that concept properly. What would it mean if when one person learns a skill he can pass that skill on perfectly to even just one other person? When the skill of a watchmaker won't die with him? Will the society quickly plateau because everyone gets so good at things instantly? It could either be great or a disaster for the old workers. They could either have one more item to go into their retirement, the sale of their intangible experience to a younger worker, or it could remove the last incentive companies have to retain their older workers.
Though perhaps human skills will be vastly depreciated long before we get to the point of being able to access each other's skills. Amazing how I can turn anything into a skiffy plot point. Hear I am contemplating my weekend and it turns into this.
Went to Denver. Didn't meet with Roel. Did meet up with Aran and Danny. Went with them to Oshima Ramen, that was good. The going out to drink didn't work out as well. Went to Rose's. Brunch was quiet. The drive home was snowy, but less stressful due to having sunglasses to cut the snow glare. It is very cold out.