Re: your right/wrong ratio

On May 29, 3:24�am, boots <n...@xxxxx> wrote:
$Zero <z...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 29, 1:58?am, boots <n...@xxxxx> wrote:
$Zero <z...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

your right/wrong ratio

what is your right/wrong ratio?

mine is about 99 to 1, or better.

Mine approaches zero.  'm only right about one thing, and prolly
wrong about everything else; of course I only do one thing at a time,
so it works out well enough realtime and leaves very few clues for
historians to snicker over.

wow.

A+++

i _really_ like your right/wrong ratio model.

probably because it ends up being very similar to mine, in spirit,
anyway.

one of the biggest differences between our respective models is that i
don't care one bit about any future snickers -- probably you don't
either, really --

Really? 

i guess not.


Paranoia results from a proper perception of the food chain.

and The Tyranny of Stupidity continues,
nearly unwearied by its own deception.

it's the natural evolution of most people's thinking.

i don't because i know that my 99% rightness thinger
is mostly a context oriented dynamic, though most of it probably holds
up across most possible contexts due to my sense of humor.

anyway, the "doing only one thing at a time" thinger of yours is an
exceptionally honest and positive and stressless way to think about it
all -- especially the part about admitting being wrong about
everything else -- which makes your model far better than mine.

beautiful.

simply beautiful!

it's sublime.

schoools would be wise to consider applying your model in some way.

if only everyone could move towards adopting and understandimng your
way of assessing your right/wrong ratio, i think we could avoid a
whole shitload of pointless conflict and wastes of time, no?

another thing i was thinking earlier along this right/wrong ratio
thing was that it would be interesting to add another dimension to
traditional "test taking".

like so:

with each answer one gives on a test, one designates a confidence
factor (rating your answer from 0 to 5 as far as ranking your
certainty that your answer is correct -- with 5 meaning that you're
100% certain).

then, if your answer is correct, you multiply your certainty factor by
the number of points that you normally get for the correct answer
(thus adding points to your overall certainty/rightness tally).

conversely, if your answer is wrong, you multiply those same regular
test question points by your certainty factor (as well as negative 1
-- thus subtracting points from your overall certainty/rightness
tally).

the certainty points are tallied separately than the regular test
question points and used as a secondary evaluator for your knowledge
on the overall subject.

so if you place a certainty factor of 5 on every question and you get
them all right, whoa.

conversely, if you place a certainty factor of 0 on every question and
you get them all right, they either send you in for psychological
evaluation OR immediately move you up several grades (depending on
what the shrinks determine).

on the other hand, if you get most or all of the answers WRONG and
you've marked most questions with a certainty factor of 0, well they
check you for sleep apnea or something, but they also enroll you in
some sort of bureaucratic clerk courses.

and no matter how well you score points on the regular part of the
test (traditional pointwise), if you mark most questions with a
certainty factor of  2 or 3, they send you off to safely study with
others of your ilk.

or whatever.

It doesn't matter how certain you are, any more than it matters what
the odds are that you won't be struck by lightning, what matters is
whether you light up like a christmas tree or go merrily on your way.

translation: "i select a certainty value of 2 or 3, please show me the
way to the escapist paradise"

or worse:

"i'll pretend that i've found the way myself"


anyway, again, nice job!

here's a toast to being wrong about everything!

(except for the one thing that you're not wrong about)

-$Zero...

I used to think rilly hard like you seem to, I thought it would make a
difference if I could figure everything out.  

Gawd.

you obviously thought wayyy too hard about things because you've come
up with the wrong conclusions about doing so.

i guess i gave you too much credit for your right/wrong ratio model
thinger.

because you seem to have totally missed the point of what makes it
valuable.

instead, you seem to have given up on the joys of "thinking hard" and
have wimpily surrendered to The Tyranny of Stupidity.

so sad.

but not an unusual tale, by any means.

and please don't feel bad about my criticising you in this way.

if it didn't hurt at least a little, you'd probably dismiss it as
worthless.

that's the way you think.

Things would be better, somehow.

somehow?

sigh.

What I noticed was that the more things I figured out, the
more things there were to figure out.

duh.

It seemed kind of like fractal problem generation.

then obviously, you came up with the wrong answers.

because, although you thought way too hard about things, you didn't
think hard enough.

Have you ever thought how nice it might be to be
mentally retarded?

see other thread.

the newest idea thinger.

 Just barely smart enough to get through life, but
not smart enough to worry about a bunch of crap
you can't do anything about anyway?

you're one of those twelve steppers, aren't you?

too bad you missed the implications of that wisdom-to-know-the-
difference part.

well, if you didn't miss it, you obviously threw out the overall
"wisdom" thinger.

(as far as being able to determine which parts you could successfully
change, anyway)

and the Tyranny of Stupidity continues,
nearly unwearied by its own deception.

in the sense that... when you threw out the bathwater, you lazily
decided to throw out way too many of the babies with it.

though, for some people, maybe that's all for the best.

Sounds okay to me.

no doubt.

you're like an alcoholic gulping down another quart of whiskey.

Sometimes it sounds rilly good.

let me guess, you operate a liquor store of some sort?


-$Zero...

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