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<p>Bvaitla: </p> <hr /> <div>*[[Complex Systems Summer School 2013-QOTW|Back to QOTW!]]<br /> <br /> {{Complex Systems Summer School 2013}}<br /> <br /> Is a persons value based on their past or future actions?<br /> <br /> Is it better to judge based on consequence or intention?<br /> <br /> What qualities do you believe are most worthy of respect? <br /> <br /> What type of person makes you happy?<br /> <br /> What personality traits stirs your interest, your curiosity?<br /> <br /> How do you choose your friends?<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> David: Pfft, that's easy. You just sum their marginal utility. Topic over! &lt;/economist&gt;<br /> <br /> Kevin: Sadly it's typically measured by gross income?<br /> <br /> Mengsen: how much I like the person + how much I hate the person.<br /> <br /> Bapu: Present ideally, but in reality...past and future weighted in both directions by discount rate? Intention*.51 + Consequence*.49? Kindness.</div>

Bvaitla https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=%22If_you_could_instantly_download_three_hobby_style_skills_into_your_brain,_which_three_skills_would_you_pick%3F%22&diff=50760 2013-07-19T13:00:22Z

<p>Bvaitla: </p> <hr /> <div>Alastair: Beekeeping, Lockpicking and Tightrope walking.<br /> <br /> Mengsen: (the ability to do math)*3<br /> <br /> Mauricio: ride alpacas, eat only fractal-like vegetables, and tyep wtih my eblow<br /> <br /> Brady: squirrel suit flying (I have no idea what its proper name is), painting/drawing, scuba diving<br /> <br /> Lauren: gardening, parachute skiing, yoga inversions (aka unsupported handstands etc.)<br /> <br /> Andrea: drawing/painting, wood works/carpentry, play piano (also the power law blues is fine :-)<br /> <br /> tom (DF): Alastair got two of mine (sort of) -- lockpicking and Slack-Line walking (to see me try, with help, <br /> look here http://csustan.csustan.edu/~tom/Movies/Tom-Slack-Line.MOV ) -- my third is tatting (you can look it up -- I like knots :-)<br /> <br /> Molly: storytelling, treehouse building, guitar-playing<br /> <br /> Swati: Being funny, writing persuasively and beautifully, balancing- for dance and rock climbing <br /> <br /> Vanessa: Kung Fu, knitting, sleight of hand<br /> <br /> Nix: Abyss staring, multiplying large matrices with my tongue, &quot;Spider Touch.&quot;<br /> <br /> Jian: banjo playing, moonwalking, unicycling on a slackline<br /> <br /> Cesar: Classical Guitar, Kun Fu, dancing salsa<br /> <br /> Bapu: Dunking (on a 10 foot rim), surfing, and stealing Mauricio's alpacas<br /> <br /> you're the next...<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *[[Complex Systems Summer School 2013-QOTW|Back to QOTW!]]</div>

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