I once read something that stuck with me (it was a passing comment on people offering their ideas for a civ-style strategy game to the author): “don’t tell me what you are going to do, tell me what you have done”.
I wonder if this is itself a hufflepuff virtue?
“don’t tell me what you are going to do, tell me what you have done”.
In case this was also meant on the object level, I will observe that the Secular Solstice exists because of Raemon, and I also expect the NYC LW group has quite a bit of gratitude for things that he’s done.
I’m not active enough on LW to be able to accuse anyone here of being idle, either in given particulars or in general.
I intended more of an expression of curiosity about where the stated objectives make contact with past experience than to make a lazily hidden indictment :)
There’s also an element of instrumental rationality quite beautifully captured there, shifting the focus from ideation to concrete action by setting a certain waterline for what should be regarded as worth attention.
Similar to the Latin Acta, non Verba.
It’s a principle of practicality—which category strikes me as largely overlapping HP’s home territory.
I’d say that “practical’ has two main meanings. One is “achievable given certain constraints and limits”, the antonym is “impractical”. Two is “focusing on the direct outputs”, the antonym is a bit hard to come by but the opposite meaning is, basically, “done for status/signaling purposes”.
Neither of the two meanings implies simplicity or bluntness.
I once read something that stuck with me (it was a passing comment on people offering their ideas for a civ-style strategy game to the author): “don’t tell me what you are going to do, tell me what you have done”. I wonder if this is itself a hufflepuff virtue?
In case this was also meant on the object level, I will observe that the Secular Solstice exists because of Raemon, and I also expect the NYC LW group has quite a bit of gratitude for things that he’s done.
I’m not active enough on LW to be able to accuse anyone here of being idle, either in given particulars or in general. I intended more of an expression of curiosity about where the stated objectives make contact with past experience than to make a lazily hidden indictment :)
Not trusting the words but relying on externally-verifiable evidence hardly seems Hufflepuffish...
I would probably call it “common sense”, but out of the four Houses it should be a Slytherin virtue.
There’s also an element of instrumental rationality quite beautifully captured there, shifting the focus from ideation to concrete action by setting a certain waterline for what should be regarded as worth attention.
Similar to the Latin Acta, non Verba.
It’s a principle of practicality—which category strikes me as largely overlapping HP’s home territory.
You misspelled Avada Kedavra. /s
I don’t think that setting a threshold “for what should be regarded as worth attention” is an expression of the principle of practicality.
It is, of course, in a trivial way, but it’s the same way in which putting on your shoes before going outside is an expression of the same principle.
Plus acta non verba implies a certain distrust for words. Distrust is not a Hufflepuff thing at all.
It is, of course, in a trivial way
Practicality is usually in some sense “trivial”, not so? Is there any sense in which the word implies complexity or subtlety?
To me, practicality doesn’t imply triviality.
I’d say that “practical’ has two main meanings. One is “achievable given certain constraints and limits”, the antonym is “impractical”. Two is “focusing on the direct outputs”, the antonym is a bit hard to come by but the opposite meaning is, basically, “done for status/signaling purposes”.
Neither of the two meanings implies simplicity or bluntness.