Out-of-spec flags are a classic tactic of imagineering.
There is a “flag code” which is basically an honor code (no real punishments for violating it) which holds that you are supposed to put a flag up in the morning and take it down at night unless you illuminate it. From time to time a visitor to Disney’s Main Street USA will note there are an awful lot of flags all over the place and there is no way they could be giving them the proper respect.
At this point a cast member steps in and explains that there is only one American flag in all of Main Street USA and all the rest of the flags are off-spec, like they have the wrong number of stripes or the wrong number of stars. They have a really nice ceremony at the end of the day when they take the one flag down and that person who cares about the flag code might get to take it down himself.
(Reminds me of that dark time in the pandemic when identitarians were interested in strange flags such as the blue stripe flag and pride flag variations… Ouch!)
Looks like we were both paying attention to boomer versus millennial (genZ?) takes on the Caltech honor code.
I then swiped the vector embedding:
pride is to 'honor-code' as gratitude is to reciprocity
pride is to jurisprudence as "radical acceptance" is to mindfulness
Had directionality withheld from the machine so I read:
Reciprocity => Gratitude
Caltech exams are default out-of-spec, genZ's sadism is boomer's imagineering (it's nice to flip the Girardian scapegoat script on its head, what does that look like with take home exams.. ? Partial answer: gradstudent demos "how it's supposed to be done" 1s postexam
Undergrads --both proud and "pragmatic"-- then get to be shamed but grad "proctor/circus-animal" doesn't get the praise, though the pity gets muted )
Generalize this to a nonviolent, admin-has-skin-in-the-game way to preempt schoolyard bullying
(In America is it more common to get bullied by juniors? In Japan and Switzerland-- at least pre-Freedom-Fries immigration crisis-- that seems to be the case)
Out-of-spec flags are a classic tactic of imagineering.
There is a “flag code” which is basically an honor code (no real punishments for violating it) which holds that you are supposed to put a flag up in the morning and take it down at night unless you illuminate it. From time to time a visitor to Disney’s Main Street USA will note there are an awful lot of flags all over the place and there is no way they could be giving them the proper respect.
At this point a cast member steps in and explains that there is only one American flag in all of Main Street USA and all the rest of the flags are off-spec, like they have the wrong number of stripes or the wrong number of stars. They have a really nice ceremony at the end of the day when they take the one flag down and that person who cares about the flag code might get to take it down himself.
(Reminds me of that dark time in the pandemic when identitarians were interested in strange flags such as the blue stripe flag and pride flag variations… Ouch!)
Looks like we were both paying attention to boomer versus millennial (genZ?) takes on the Caltech honor code. I then swiped the vector embedding:
Had directionality withheld from the machine so I read: Caltech exams are default out-of-spec, genZ's sadism is boomer's imagineering (it's nice to flip the Girardian scapegoat script on its head, what does that look like with take home exams.. ? Partial answer: gradstudent demos "how it's supposed to be done" 1s postexamUndergrads --both proud and "pragmatic"-- then get to be shamed but grad "proctor/circus-animal" doesn't get the praise, though the pity gets muted )
Generalize this to a nonviolent, admin-has-skin-in-the-game way to preempt schoolyard bullying
(In America is it more common to get bullied by juniors? In Japan and Switzerland-- at least pre-Freedom-Fries immigration crisis-- that seems to be the case)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070971
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48127408