tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post2326064995902250048..comments2024-03-13T03:05:17.980+08:00Comments on Singapore Notes: Why Smart People Make Bad DecisionsTattlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037010707866164010noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-81353204007324867442012-10-27T08:28:08.869+08:002012-10-27T08:28:08.869+08:00Lol! Marrytocracy! How true. Just one word describ...Lol! Marrytocracy! How true. Just one word describes it all! Brilliant. Padalyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16254219238193360811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-63070558444147116822012-10-26T19:12:26.621+08:002012-10-26T19:12:26.621+08:00Talk no use.
You must vote Opposition.
And convert...Talk no use.<br />You must vote Opposition.<br />And convert at least one of your friend or relative to also vote Opposition.<br />Remember.<br />60% of your friends & relatives voted Opposition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-61700918101340276822012-10-26T16:59:26.331+08:002012-10-26T16:59:26.331+08:00Grace Fu : "Singapore needs a steep improveme...Grace Fu : "Singapore needs a steep improvement in productivity with a calibrated inflow of foreign workers to address the shrinking labour force."<br /><br />Ms Fu, we have 2 million foreigners out of 5.4 million, and this is called a shrinking labour force? Are you bonkers, or are we going to be? Is this akrasia or hyperbolic discounting - in layman's language, crazy or going for short term gains (GDP growth through immigration)? Short-cuts anyone, or just running out of ideas? "Cognitively sophisticated participants showed larger bias blind spots". I guess this must refer to our "scholars" and elites.<br /><br />You can skip Andy Ho's long-winded, convoluted semantics on craziness, an exhibition of his eruditeness. Cutting all the crap, you can become crazy or irrational because of your BELIEFS and DESIRES - for political power, wealth, status, sexual gratification, success, fame, notoreity, accolades, drugs etc - and these are powerful, habit-forming, driving forces that can trump reason, opinion, logic, and are reasonable or rational only to yourself. They can overcome your moral being, principles, scruples, and lead to meta-bias and blind-spots. <br /><br />Look at the scholars and upwardly mobile elites. Smart, right? But some wank themselves into trouble with their sex-capades and corruption because their greed and libido got the better of them. And look no further than the PAP and it's policies, and what drives them, with these same scholars and elites in charge. Talk of principles, scruples and morality, or lack thereof! If you lack scruples, you can always make the right moves or decisions that benefit yourself.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-50368338538986203632012-10-26T14:51:48.014+08:002012-10-26T14:51:48.014+08:00We should be least concern about why "smart&q...We should be least concern about why "smart" people make bad decisions. <br /><br />Be more concern about why seemingly 'normal' people don't make better decisions. <br /><br />http://activistawake.com/2012/06/24/the-world-as-i-see-it-by-albert-einstein/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-51486636049855686432012-10-26T09:31:05.421+08:002012-10-26T09:31:05.421+08:00JOKE
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Shit Times policy on Opposition poli...JOKE<br />--------<br />Shit Times policy on Opposition politicians:<br />You have the right to remain silent. <br />Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-20938650844256674542012-10-26T09:28:27.173+08:002012-10-26T09:28:27.173+08:00ST journalism is people who can't write; inter...ST journalism is people who can't write; interviewing people who can't get a better paying job elsewhere;<br />in order to provide articles for people who can't think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-52683499241852217172012-10-26T09:18:47.168+08:002012-10-26T09:18:47.168+08:00"So what is Shit times good for?"
Good a..."So what is Shit times good for?"<br />Good at packaging and repackaging BS until it becomes palatable to many....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-19646557622820987312012-10-26T08:58:30.870+08:002012-10-26T08:58:30.870+08:00Government lies,
and newspapers lie,
but in a de...Government lies, <br />and newspapers lie, <br />but in a democracy they are different lies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-51596041249390897952012-10-26T08:55:34.876+08:002012-10-26T08:55:34.876+08:00Q: So what is Shit times good for?
A: Wrap up the ...Q: So what is Shit times good for?<br />A: Wrap up the garbage in parliament?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-65308137607557960922012-10-26T08:39:46.588+08:002012-10-26T08:39:46.588+08:00I like that new term "marrytocracy".
Use...I like that new term "marrytocracy".<br />Use it more often and it will be listed in Webster and Oxford !<br />Have this notion that most MBA holders out of Harvard and or Standford in Singapore context always live by the Growth is Glorious motto.Lye Khuen Wayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15902519116110277038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-8941225483254835352012-10-26T01:31:32.416+08:002012-10-26T01:31:32.416+08:00Hello,
don't anyone know that beside ST known ...Hello,<br />don't anyone know that beside ST known as ShittyTimes, another nickname is Sycophant Tales ? ST is PAP's mouthpiece that abuse the taxmoney to finance state media company<br />as propaganda operation for the party. They will publish tales of PAP sycophants to insult your intelligence and dignity.<br /><br />Even a dog's poo deserve better treatment than to be wrapped with ShittyPaper. Don't further dirty your dog poo with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-91342676547324260322012-10-25T22:36:46.721+08:002012-10-25T22:36:46.721+08:00"A minister is a political appointment,
you s..."A minister is a political appointment,<br />you serve at the Prime Minister's pleasure"<br /><br />How about Ho Jinx ? Is she serving at the PM's pleasure or father-in-law's pleasure ? Hence can we say the PM was smart but made a bad decision or the PM was dumb and made a bad decision ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-45958162224784081282012-10-25T21:50:34.562+08:002012-10-25T21:50:34.562+08:00Please don't insult your dog's poo with th...Please don't insult your dog's poo with the Shit Times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-16623647703635975822012-10-25T20:17:07.027+08:002012-10-25T20:17:07.027+08:00Why bothered to read articles by sycophants? I ski...Why bothered to read articles by sycophants? I skip all editorial and opinion pieces on ST. Maybe I should skip the forum too. Hmm, or maybe I should just read those parts by Reuters et al. Minus the facts, the rest are basically junk. I bought it primarily to pick up my dog's poo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-27775982143517266472012-10-25T20:08:03.943+08:002012-10-25T20:08:03.943+08:00It is marritocrazy.It is marritocrazy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-65590446522014407032012-10-25T19:41:31.546+08:002012-10-25T19:41:31.546+08:00It's especially quite true in the appointment ...It's especially quite true in the appointment of our PAP's cronies. When one is out of favour or incurs the Emporer's wrath, suddenly all the meritocracy of that person doesn't matter at all eg our Ex-Attorney General Francis Seow.<br /><br />But when one particular CEO loses billions of our investment monies, they still couldn't find someone more meritocratic to replace her ? And is that because she is the ONLY BEST ONE available under our type of meritocracy and therefore irreplaceable ? <br /><br />It's still meritocracy, is it ?Alan Wongnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-6636350659379682212012-10-25T18:48:21.468+08:002012-10-25T18:48:21.468+08:00A politician's job by definition, is a politic...A politician's job by definition, is a political appointment.<br />You can call it meritocratic until the cows come home.<br />Bottomline.<br />A Minister is a political appointment.<br />You serve at the Prime Minister's pleasure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-85538034303481694452012-10-25T16:09:49.919+08:002012-10-25T16:09:49.919+08:00I got the lily pond doubling question correct, the...I got the lily pond doubling question correct, the bat and ball wrong, so I am irrational as anyone else.<br /><br />But the studies quoted in the New Yorker article generally defined "smart people" as those who went to Harvard, or those with high SAT scores, which incidentally were the yardsticks used to select all our scholars ministers and perm/deputy secs running the country. So maybe we can say the pitfalls in policieis could be explained by common "irrationality".<br /><br />But I tend to believe Andy Ho's explanation that people choose to be "obsessed" with certain ideas such as economic vibrancy not because of blind spots, or a result of groupthinking (given that none of the scholars perm/deputy secs ever held a proper job in real life and all went to the same oxbridge universities followed by summer Harvard or standford MBA). It is far more likely that they are believers in the virtues of the self-serving GDP bonus which they so carefully crafted for themselves. How else can one explain Grace's now famous fb entry about the "sacrifices" of entering politics, and her boss ardent defence of her stance. So its Andy Ho's dollars and cents, not irrationality nor blindspots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-2372775234308329712012-10-25T16:03:46.956+08:002012-10-25T16:03:46.956+08:00Indeed, before anyone goes on the 'esteemed ad...Indeed, before anyone goes on the 'esteemed advice" from your so called moral leaders, one just have to look around us with examples like the plastic surgeon Richard Teo who has the word "millionaire" attached to his epitaph..life on the fast and furious lane...think and look again. <br /><br />http://www.heavenaddress.com/Dr-Richard-Teo-Keng-Siang/424153/379719/content<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6oSDyMUigQ<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-58469144822463599842012-10-25T14:18:03.624+08:002012-10-25T14:18:03.624+08:00Thanks for sharing.
We need quality postings (thou...Thanks for sharing.<br />We need quality postings (though difficult to maintain the standard).<br />Everyone (smart or stupid) could make bad Decisions, though reasons are far apart.<br /><br />market2garden sd 2012.10.25 clarinet2concertohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14514852343578463482noreply@blogger.com