Panic over intangibles is the right thing? Promise?
On 3/29/11 11:30 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
In the absence of a functioning moral compass, I suppose this is a
workable definition.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com
<mailto:sroy...@gmail.com>> wrote:
What the majority of people do IS the right thing. Wisdom of
crowds and so on.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Douglas Roberts
<d...@parrot-farm.net <mailto:d...@parrot-farm.net>> wrote:
> Geeze, Nick.
> You can't make people do the right thing. People have to want
to do the
> right thing. People don't want to do the right thing. (Speaking in
> majority terms now, minority exceptions don't count). Things
won't change
> until people change. When will that be? Not in our lifetime,
people are
> slow learners, and relatively stupid, statistically speaking.
We're talking
> on the evolutionary time scale before the collective good will
come before
> the individual profit on this particular spec of the cosmos.
> --Doug
> BTW, I'm a realist. Not a pessimist, nor an optimist. Roger
probably
> understands. And Steve. I kind of wonder about some of the
rest of you,
> though.
>
============================================================
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
--
Doug Roberts
drobe...@rti.org <mailto:drobe...@rti.org>
d...@parrot-farm.net <mailto:d...@parrot-farm.net>
505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell
============================================================
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
============================================================
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
