I have an image of a diagram that I'd like to add hover-over or clickable hot spots that would pop up a window or take the reader to a footnote. Is this possible with the native functionality of the LW Site?
Perhaps the Meaning of Life An Adventure in Pluralistic Morality. Sept. 18, 2002 "All models are wrong but some are useful." --George Box At the core of every controversial issue, institutional dysfunction and inspiring human achievement is the conspicuous influence of how well a society of people “get along”. Splitting...
Excerpt from Thoughts(Pensées), Blaise Pascal, c.1662(published later, posthumously) > The greatness of man consists in thought. > > A thinking reed. — Not from space must I seek my dignity, > but from the ruling of my thought. I should have no more if I > possessed whole worlds. By...
So, a couple general thoughts.
-In the 80s/90s we were obsessing over potential atom-splitting devastation and the resulting nuclear winter. Before that there were plagues wiping out huge swaths of humanity.
-Once a technology genie is out of the bottle you can't stop it. Human nature. -In spite of the 'miracles' of science there's A LOT humanity does not know. "There are know unknowns and unknown unknowns" D.R.
-In a few billion years our sun will extinguish and all remaining life on space rock Earth will perish. All material concerns are temporary. Sorry.
-Four thousand years of good advice suggests that the most interesting & meaningful stage of life starts when we begin to Know Thyself. Now in mid-life I'm starting to suspect there is some truth to this. Happy holidays everyone!
I like the LW forum, I just wasn't sure what I was looking for was currently possible.
"ordering off-menu"
My point was asking a developer to make an unplanned addition to and existing system of code usually results in headaches all around.
"Conceivably an admin could embed an iframe"
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I've never had much luck "ordering off-menu". Thanks for the response all the same.
I have an image of a diagram that I'd like to add hover-over or clickable hot spots that would pop up a window or take the reader to a footnote. Is this possible with the native functionality of the LW Site?
Thanks for the feedback Raemon. I'll add some verbiage to the components and relationships. Maybe there's a way to add hover-over pop-ups.
Downvotes, hmmm, at least a couple people read it. I wonder what they disagreed with?
Perhaps the Meaning of Life
An Adventure in Pluralistic Morality.
Sept. 18, 2002
"All models are wrong but some are useful."
--George Box
At the core of every controversial issue, institutional dysfunction and inspiring human achievement is the conspicuous influence of how well a society of people “get along”. Splitting this atom exposes the sub-particles of human nature(~proton), moral agency(~electron) and the electromagnetic tension of choice around individual belief(~neutron). The following model is an ongoing effort to assemble and refine an understanding of this dynamic.
The first figure, entitled Moral Transitions, indicates the individual’s struggle against the less appealing aspects of human nature. The second, Relational Harmonics represents the near constant challenge of building and maintaining character. The third... (read 952 more words →)
An adventure in pluralistic morality.
Sept. 18, 2002
"All models are wrong but some are useful."
--George Box
At the core of every controversial issue, institutional dysfunction and inspiring human achievement is the conspicuous influence of how well a society of people “get along”. Splitting this atom exposes the sub-particles of human nature(~proton), moral agency(~electron) and the electromagnetic tension of choice around individual belief(~neutron). The following model is an ongoing effort to assemble and refine an understanding of this dynamic.
The first figure, entitled Moral Transitions, indicates the individual’s struggle against the less appealing aspects of human nature. The second, Relational Harmonics represents the near constant challenge of building and maintaining character. The... (read 949 more words →)
Excerpt from Thoughts(Pensées), Blaise Pascal, c.1662(published later, posthumously)
... (read more)The greatness of man consists in thought.
A thinking reed. — Not from space must I seek my dignity,
but from the ruling of my thought. I should have no more if I
possessed whole worlds. By space the Universe encompasses
and swallows me as an atom, by thought I encompass it.
Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.
It needs not that the whole Universe should arm to crush him.
A vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But were the
Universe to crush him, man would still be more noble than that
which has slain him, because he knows that he dies, and
6. Pre-clean as necessary to keep dishes from stinking after three days when the dishwasher will be full and can be unloaded into the sink and washed manually because said dishwasher has been broken for three weeks!
[Bonus: discovered that manually washing dishes had 'zen' value.]
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Supplemental:
"As an interesting thought experiment, invent my brutally honest slogans to make the point that most products have both an ostensible, ‘official’ function and an ulterior function. The main value of a dishwasher, I would argue, is not that it washes dirty dishes, but that it provides you with an out-of-sight place to put them."
--Rory Sutherland, Alchemy, 2021
During further research into topic of morality I discovered the following.
Per excerpt below which meshes with my current understanding, knowledge of "morality" is based on unchanging Natural Law("Ground") (essentially the Golden Rule) is restricted by who we are. Given that who we are fluctuates this adds even more variation into defining it. I'm not suggesting basic morality is relative to a person or culture but how we perceive it is. Applying basic morality to a current culture is another matter but first things first.
"In other words, the Ground can be denoted as being there, but not defined as having qualities. This means that discursive knowledge about the Ground is not merely, like... (read more)
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LOL ... <sigh>
"Once a technology genie is out of the bottle you can't stop it"
Bloomberg, Feb 1st, 2023: ChatGPT Unleashes Stock Trader Stampede for Everything AI
The stock-market euphoria around AI is reminding traders of past bubbles like 2017’s blockchain frenzy.
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It's be fine. Try to figure out the right( or less wrong) thing to do and then make an effort to do it.
As always.