which has a slightly different system of belts and isn't taken seriously by everyone. Despite that, decades later, the last time somebody held a fake gun to my head they were tasting dirt and then it hit me that I would have done the same thing if it was a real gun.
I get the sense the author has a very specific example in mind (something less hypothetical than black belts) that they're very carefully not spelling out. But they fail to abstract their grievance into a general principle that holds water on its own.
I think it is a problem with those people, they have a lot of groupthink and if you think something else (e.g. AI doesn't become a god when the number of neurons N → ∞) you wouldn't feel psychologically safe. So you get this stuff.
I think I got to green belt in the Villari system long ago, I still have a Gi with a black belt for cosplay. I am not going to tell you I have any authority as a martial arts instructor but when my son got interested in
I studied up on forms that use that vs the Spear and we trained in that; any conventional martial arts school would make you spend at least a year practicing punches and kicks before doing a weapons form but he just didn't have the patience. Could I teach a beginner the basics of punches and kicks, sure. I'll do it for my friends and family but I'm not going to hang a shingle as a martial arts instructor.
It's such an incoherent article that it's hard to do more than react to the title.
It doesn't surprise me at all. It's not like there is really a central system for martial arts ranks. When I was a kid I went to this Dojo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Kempo_Karate
which has a slightly different system of belts and isn't taken seriously by everyone. Despite that, decades later, the last time somebody held a fake gun to my head they were tasting dirt and then it hit me that I would have done the same thing if it was a real gun.
I get the sense the author has a very specific example in mind (something less hypothetical than black belts) that they're very carefully not spelling out. But they fail to abstract their grievance into a general principle that holds water on its own.
I think it is a problem with those people, they have a lot of groupthink and if you think something else (e.g. AI doesn't become a god when the number of neurons N → ∞) you wouldn't feel psychologically safe. So you get this stuff.
I think I got to green belt in the Villari system long ago, I still have a Gi with a black belt for cosplay. I am not going to tell you I have any authority as a martial arts instructor but when my son got interested in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-section_staff
I studied up on forms that use that vs the Spear and we trained in that; any conventional martial arts school would make you spend at least a year practicing punches and kicks before doing a weapons form but he just didn't have the patience. Could I teach a beginner the basics of punches and kicks, sure. I'll do it for my friends and family but I'm not going to hang a shingle as a martial arts instructor.