anonymised chats in public

Many people are terrified, when their thoughts are scrutinised by others. It is an understandable trigger, but I do not encourage it. Often I publicly post conversations with anonymised conversants, whereas my role in the conversation is more obvious. The anonymised may fear that this exposes themselves to vulnerabilities. But without the reification of a subject, the predicate of conversation is merely a concept, worthy of global review.

I generally comply with requests for secrecy, but in the absence of such requests, my own life is mostly laid bare. I do not know any better way to present information for discussion, than by this method. I certainly don't trust the anonymised parties' views, more than I trust the myriad of public feedback and opinion. 

It is notable however, that parties which tend to be terrified by such dynamics, also tend to be the ones who feel insecure about their place in society : uncertain about their relationships with others, uncertain about job security, uncertain about being perceived as mentally ill.

profitable promise management

 The trick to an easy life with no responsibilities is ...

• 1. underpromise
• 2. overdeliver

The trick to enriching yourself at the expense of others is ...

• 1. overpromise
• 2. underdeliver

The trick to knowing which is which is ...

• 1. assume no promises are implicit
• 2. don't mistake a non-promise for a promise

Follow me for more trite comments, as I try to stay awake at my desk.

integration : triple network model, my college work

People are simple machines, somewhat

It will probably be several years before I can map the language I used for my college work, to the language of the triple network model in contemporary neuroscience. After all, they are both infirm theories. Roughly from my initial reading of the latter :

SMN ... SENSORY-motor ( sensorimotor / somatomotor ) network, covers both exteroception and interoception. ( Which together form a subset of proprioception ... as proprioception broadly involves imagined sensory data as well, not just live sourced sensory data ). Of course this divides into input/output i.e. sense/motor subnets. Various sense modalities have their own subnets.

CEN ... central executive network, mostly concerned with PHYSICS : modelling, simulation, and execution. Bridges the SMN, to other key networks. Since DEDUCTIVE reasoning is a variety of physics ( not a commonly understood or acceptable hypothesis ), perhaps this is also the brain's deductive processor, equivalent to ATPs in maths software. 

DMN ... default mode network, generally said to be involved in free association, pattern matching, and INDUCTIVE hypothesis generation ( first stage of inductive reasoning, where the second stage is deductive coherence checking ).

SN ... salience network, tends to handle PRIORITISATION ( probably value judgements in general, as it links up with emotions, and socioeconomic valuation ).

DAN ... dorsal attention network, seems to be closely related with the shortest-term memory buffer, getting bridged alternately to the CEN or DMN. Maybe the seat of CONSCIOUS memory - need to read up on how this works with blind people, as initial pointers talk about visual data ( we do know blind people can use visual imagination internally, to a degree ).

why are folks arguing about circumcision again

Folks, circumcision of all genders as a method of hygiene was popularised in the context of a desert (sic) before the invention of antibiotics, industrial personal care products, and tiktok lifestyle coaches. 

There is more than sufficient grounds to practice it as a matter of religious preference. There is no need to justify that preference, by contaminating it with shoddy arguments.

Whether religion as a whole is metaphysically equivalent to aesthetics, is a related, but separate discussion.

please sir, may we have better laws?

Democracy in Malaysia would be more functional, if MUCH MORE of current work and policy under the executive branch was preliminarily enshrined in vastly more detailed ACTS OF LAW endorsed by parliament. These should include BUDGETS for the implementation of various Acts of Law, and an overarching structure to facilitate such legislation.

For trivial example, we have laws protecting animals from abuse, but no actual budgets to enforce those laws, thus contributing to the widespread BROKEN-WINDOW problem about the rule-of-law in Malaysia. Other common examples include speeding on highways, using mobile phones while driving, and double-parking around places of worship.

Malaysia's public policy to-date, centres work in the name of the Executive ( king ), and practically in their Prime Minister, and the PM's cabinet. (Mahathir seems largely responsible for this, but that's a separate issue.)

akta kemajuan hartanah bumiputera

Akta Kemajuan Hartanah Bumiputera - inilah cadangan sahaja. 

Petikan ini adalah susulan daripada pengajian sekejap, tanpa kaedah saintif, dan merupakan hanya hipotesis, dan bukan sebarang simpulan. (Tak lama saya mengaji ekonomi hartanah Malaysia, atas keperluan membina tempat perlindungan bagi orang2 tua saya, sebulan dua ini.) Yang diperhatikan :

1. DASAR awam, dan perundangan, yang menyekatkan pemilikan TANAH kepada kumpulan tertentu mengikut keturunan, telahpun BERAKAR umbi sejak zaman prakebangsaan Malaysia ... mungkin juga sebelum 1913.

2. Dasar HARTANAH telahpun terus dibangunkan SELEPAS kemerdekaan Malaya dan pembentukan Malaysia. Pembangunan dasar ini telah mengalami pelbagai arus, terutamanya pengaruh Dasar Ekonomi Baru (1971).

3. MATLAMAT dasar2 ini adalah pelbagai. (3.1.) Penjagaan hak dan aset perbadanan dan persatuan dari zaman dahulu, di bawah perlabelan sosial : perkauman, kedaulatan, monarki, kesultanan, dll. (3.2.) Pengubahan nisbah pemilikan aset antara pelbagai kumpulan sosial yang dianggap berasingan, oleh sebab rangka perlabelan sosial yang diandaikan rasmi dalam proses penggubalan dasar. 

4. Dari segi teori ekonomi, mana2 dasar mempunyai KOS PELUANG yang berstruktur, contohnya dengan dasar sekatan perkauman tanah, antara akibatnya adalah pengurangan saiz pasaran bagi tanah yang tersekat, dan seterusnya penyekatan kecairan modal yang dapat didedahkan kepada pasaran tersebut. Pendek katanya, nilai kewangan jangka "pendek" tanah bumiputera telah DIKURANGKAN demi mencapai tujuan stratejik jangka "panjang". Ini nampaknya satu kesilapan.

5. Kesilapan dalam mana2 kerja, termasuknya penggubal dasar awam, adalah kebiasaan duniawi. Soalan selalunya adalah, dalam mana2 kerja, bolehkan pembaikan berlaku, ataupun telahpun kerja itu sudah tersekat tanpa peluang kemajuan selama2nya? 

6. Dengan itu, mungkinlah penggubal2 perundangan Malaysia terkini bolehlah merangkakan sesuatu akta yang mencapai kesemuanya (3.1.) dan (3.2.), DAN tambahan kepada itu, mencapai kecairan modal kepada hartanah bumiputera sehingga nilai jangka pendek hartanah itu bolehlah naik menjadi sama, atau LEBIH daripada nilai hartanah bukan-bumiputera. 

7. Penggubalan dasar itu bukan khayalan, tapi kenyataan masa kini. Alat2 perundangan dan kewangan yang boleh dikhaskan bagi tujuan ini, adalah : 

- amanah pelaburan hartanah,

- kontrak mudharabah, 

- klausa pemindahan pemilikan bersyarat, 

- klausa pemulangan pemilikan bersyarat,

- klausa penyekatan penyelenggaran, 

- klausa penyekatan nisbah ekuiti,

- klausa penyekatan sumber peminjaman modal,

- klausa penyekatan rantaian bekalan pemaju,

- dll. 

8. Sudahlah kita tahu, Malaysia adalah ekonomi yang menegaskan penyekatan. Jadi contoh2 penyekatan tersebut taklah terlebih2. Asalkan kita senegara boleh mengamalkan penambahbaikan berterusan dalam penggubalan dasar penyekatan.