Современна стоматологическая клиника "Кассис" в Копейске около Челябинка! Стоматология оказывает свои услуги недорого и качественно, цены Вы можете найти на нашем официальном сайте
Врач Хирург Городков Роман Васильевич записаться на прием
2018
Профессиональное обучение
ФГБУ Государственный научный центр лазерной медицины ФМБА России
основы лазерной медицины
2016
Профессиональное обучение
ФГБУ Государственный научный центр РФ — Федеральный медицинский биофизический центр им.А.И.Бурназяна
ультразвуковая диагностика
2016
Профессиональное обучение
ФГБУ Государственный научный центр РФ — Федеральный медицинский биофизический центр им.А.И.Бурназяна
ультразвуковая диагностика
2015
Профессиональное обучение
ИУВ ФГБУ НМХЦ им. Н.И.Пирогова Минздрава России
Хирургия
2015
Профессиональное обучение
ИУВ ФГБУ НМХЦ им. Н.И.Пирогова Минздрава России
Хирургия
2013
Профессиональное обучение
ФГБУ Государственный научно-исследовательский центр профилактической медицины Минздрава России
профилактика основных хронических неинфекционных заболеваний
2013
Профессиональное обучение
Российская медицинская академия последипломного образования Минздравсоцразвития России
маммология
2013
Профессиональное обучение
Первый Московский государственный медицинский университет им И.М.Сеченева
Качественная клиническая практика и основы доказательной медицины
2010
Профессиональное обучение
Институт усовершенствования врачей ФГУ » Национальный медико-хирургический центр им.Н.И.Пирогова»
Хирургия
2010
Ординатура
Институт усовершенствования врачей ФГУ » Национальный медико-хирургический центр им.Н.И.Пирогова»
Хирургия
2008
Высшее образование
Рязанский государственный медицинский университет им.академика И.П.Павлова
Лечебное дело
О нас
«Будь Здоров» (ООО «Клиника ЛМС») – сеть современных многопрофильных клиник с современным оборудованием и высококвалифицированными специалистами.
Благодаря современным технологиям в клиниках «Будь Здоров» пациенты могут получить медицинские услуги высокого уровня, с постоянным и строгим контролем качества. В клинике «Будь Здоров» осуществляются все виды диагностики и лечения в здании одной выбранной клиентом клиники. В штате клиник «Будь Здоров» работают сертифицированные врачи с большим профессиональным опытом, в том числе доктора и кандидаты медицинских наук.
Для повышения эффективности и качества обслуживания пациентов в сети клиник «Будь Здоров» осуществляются электронная запись к врачу и ведение электронной истории болезни каждого пациента, позволяющие экономить время и тщательно отслеживать ход лечения.
Сервисные стандарты качества «Будь Здоров»
Запись на прием к специалистам осуществляется круглосуточно по многоканальному телефону и через систему электронной записи.
Оказание полноценной амбулаторно-поликлинической помощи на дому и по месту работы.
Полная автоматизация исключает очереди к специалистам, позволяет контролировать качество работы медперсонала.
Организация консультаций у ведущих врачей всех специальностей, кандидатов и докторов медицинских наук, член-корреспондентов и академиков РАМН.
Удобное расположение клиник.
Как получать услуги в клинике «Будь Здоров»
Пациенты клиники «Будь Здоров» могут получать услуги на различных условиях:
По прейскуранту. При этом на пациента заводится бумажная и электронная история болезни, в которой навсегда остаются все результаты обследований и анализов в клинике «Будь Здоров».
Комплексные программы. В нашей клинике существует ряд программ медицинского обслуживания. Какую бы программу Вы ни выбрали — цена входящих в нее услуг будет ниже, чем при оплате по прейскуранту.
Прикрепление по программе ДМС (добровольного медицинского страхования) через страховые компании – партнеры нашей клиники. С условиями прикрепления можно ознакомиться, связавшись непосредственно со страховыми компаниями.
Депозитный договор. ООО «Клиника ЛМС» предлагает обслуживание по депозитному договору на специальных условиях с предоставлением скидок на медицинские услуги.
Контактная информация. Управляющая компания.
Адрес: 123308 г. Москва, проспект Маршала Жукова, д.4, а/я №38 Телефон: +7 (495) 782-8882 Полное наименование юридического лица: Общество с ограниченной ответственностью «Клиника ЛМС» Основной государственный регистрационный номер: 1057746061262
Выдан: Межрайонная инспекция Федеральной налоговой службы №46 по г.Москве
Будь здоров, Москва – отзывы
Специальность
Акушер
Аллерголог
Анестезиолог-реаниматолог
Венеролог
Врач-косметолог
Врач УЗИ
Гастроэнтеролог
Гематолог
Гинеколог
Дерматолог
Детский аллерголог
Детский гастроэнтеролог
Детский гинеколог
Детский дерматолог
Детский кардиолог
Детский ЛОР
Детский невролог
Детский нефролог
Детский ортопед
Детский офтальмолог
Детский психиатр
Детский пульмонолог
Детский стоматолог
Детский хирург
Детский эндокринолог
Диетолог
Иммунолог
Инфекционист
Кардиолог
ЛОР
Маммолог
Мануальный терапевт
Нарколог
Невролог
Неонатолог
Нефролог
Онколог
Ортопед
Офтальмолог (окулист)
Педиатр
Проктолог
Психиатр
Психотерапевт
Пульмонолог
Ревматолог
Рентгенолог
Рефлексотерапевт
Стоматолог
Стоматолог-ортодонт
Стоматолог-ортопед
Стоматолог-хирург
Терапевт
Травматолог
Уролог
Физиотерапевт
Функциональный диагност
Хирург
Эндокринолог
Эндоскопист
Показать все
Пациентам
Медицинские услуги
Основные задачи клиники «Будь Здоров» – эффективное оказание медицинской помощи высокого уровня, постоянное совершенствование, контроль качества и обеспечение максимального комфорта для наших пациентов.
Записаться на прием Вы можете записаться на консультацию к специалистам клиники «Будь Здоров», нажав на кнопку «Записаться на приём» или позвонив по телефонам:
г. Москва: +7 (495) 782-88 82 – круглосуточно
г. Санкт-Петербург: +7 (812) 448 88 82 – с 7-30 до 21-00
г. Краснодар: +7 (861) 210 28 28 – с 7-30 до 21-00
г. Уфа: +7 (347) 226 72 72 – с 7-30 до 21-00
г. Казань: +7 (843) 567 11 11 – с 7-30 до 21-00
г. Каменск- Уральский +7 3439 371 050 – с 7-30 до 21-00
г. Сочи +7 862 251 91 91 – с 7-30 до 21-00
Расписание приема врачей Многопрофильная клиника «Будь Здоров» позволяет оказывать полный спектр медицинских услуг в каждом здании клиники. Таким образом, наши пациенты экономят время и силы. Мы работаем без выходных, праздников и перерывов, обеспечивая максимальный комфорт при посещении специалистов клиники «Будь Здоров» в удобное для Вас время.
Стоимость услуг Пациенты клиники «Будь Здоров» могут получать услуги на различных условиях:
По прейскуранту. При этом на пациента заводится бумажная и электронная история болезни, в которой навсегда остаются все результаты обследований и анализов в клинике «Будь Здоров».
Комплексные программы. В нашей клинике существует ряд программ медицинского обслуживания. Какую бы программу Вы ни выбрали — цена входящих в нее услуг будет ниже, чем при оплате по прейскуранту.
Прикрепление по программе ДМС (добровольного медицинского страхования) через страховые компании – партнеры нашей клиники. С условиями прикрепления можно ознакомиться, связавшись непосредственно со страховыми компаниями.
Депозитный договор. ООО «Клиника ЛМС» предлагает обслуживание по депозитному договору на специальных условиях с предоставлением скидок на медицинские услуги.
Отзывы Мы хотим и готовы становиться лучше! Помогите нам в этом! Напишите отзыв о нашей клинике
Правила для пациентов Когда врач и пациент действуют сообща и соблюдают правила, результат гарантирован!
90000 What to Do About Mediocrity on Your Team 90001
90002 Executive Summary 90003
90004 The toughest test of a manager is how they address mediocrity. There is no silver bullet to address lackluster performance but there are four leadership practices that can help. First, show the consequences of mediocrity to connect people with the experiences, feelings, and impact of bad performance. Use concrete measures to make poor performance painfully apparent. Then, establish peer accountability so that people feel comfortable challenging one another when they see mediocrity.Lastly, speak up when senior leaders or others in the company encourage mediocre performance. High performance is a norm that needs to be defended regularly and vigilantly. 90005 90004 The toughest test of a manager is not how they deal with poor performance — it’s how they address mediocrity. 90005
90004 I’ve been struck over the years watching executives opine in public about the need for «accountability» and «high performance,» then complain helplessly in private about one or two middling members of their own team.You have no moral authority to ask other managers to hold people accountable if you’re not doing so yourself. Are you sure you’re doing enough to push for high performance? What do you do when someone’s work is good but not great? How many employees do you have whose performance is not bad enough for termination, but whom you’d pass on if you could get a do-over on hiring them? 90005
90004 Unfortunately, if you’re hoping for a silver bullet to address a mediocre performer, I have little to offer.Chronic mediocrity is a symptom of ineffective leadership, not anemic personnel. 90005
90004 But mediocrity is not destiny. In fact, I’ve even seen examples of government bureaucracies in tragically broken countries that dramatically turned around their performance in a matter of months. They do it through four leadership practices that lead to performance excellence. Each is a prerequisite for the next. 90005
90004 90015 1. Show the consequences of mediocrity. 90016 Your first job as a leader is to ensure everyone is clear about what they are doing and why they are doing it.Mediocrity is typically evidence of disconnection between someone’s work and the consequences of their mediocrity. 90005
90004 A telecommunications IT manager who managed 3,000 software engineers began setting new performance standards by having them manage customer calls for a full shift using the shoddy software they were creating. Those who had these experiences returned and shared stories with their colleagues about the misery they were authoring. In a matter of weeks, the sleepy team had a new alertness about their work — 90019 what they were doing 90020 and 90019 why it mattered 90020.They were no longer about cranking out code; they were about giving reliable tools to the people they served. 90005
90004 Find ways to connect people with the experiences, feelings, and impact of good and bad performance. Keep the human connection alive by telling stories that illustrate work well done — or not. And avoid impersonal / bureaucratic language when talking about performance; frame your work in human terms every time you can. 90005
90004 90015 2. Use concrete measures as influence.90016 Mediocrity often hides behind a fig leaf of absent, fuzzy, or excessive measures. In contrast, meaningful measures make poor performance painfully apparent. 90005
90004 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, dramatically boosted the efficacy of her massive government bureaucracy when she published meaningful, measurable goals because now there was a context within which to hold public servants accountable. At the beginning of her most recent term, she and her cabinet committed publicly to, among other things: 90005
90032
90033 Put 6,000 young people to work on road maintenance and beach cleanup projects.90034
90033 Open 150 km of feeder roads, linking 30 communities in two counties. 90034
90033 Open 150 new sanitation facilities. 90034
90033 Open 75 community wells in three counties. 90034
90041
90004 The goals connected clearly and meaningfully to the work her leaders were doing and why they were doing it. But had she stopped at creating warm and fuzzy shared aspirations and neglected to translate it to a minimum number of meaningfully measurable goals, her influence would have been limited.90005
90004 90015 3. Establish peer accountability. 90016 Mediocrity is also often a sign of strong supervision. That may sound counterintuitive, so stay with me here. My colleagues and I have found that: 90005
90032
90033 On the weakest teams, there is no accountability. 90034
90033 On mediocre teams, bosses are the source of accountability. 90034
90033 On high performing teams, peers manage the vast majority of performance problems with one another. 90034
90041
90004 On top performing teams, peers immediately and respectfully confront one another when problems arise.There is no way for even the strongest supervisor to see and address every performance gap. And the harder you try to do it, the more you’ll enable mediocrity. 90005
90004 Once you’ve helped the team connect deeply with what they do and why, and established meaningful measures, you need to build a culture of peer accountability — where everyone can challenge anyone if it is in the best interest of serving the shared mission. Regular weekly reviews can give opportunities for mutual feedback and establish peer-accountability as a norm.90005
90002 Further Reading 90003
90004 I watched a group of female entrepreneurs in Bangladesh ask each other difficult questions about the emotionally uncomfortable steps each needed to take to expand their small businesses. More seasoned leaders taught and modeled skills for speaking up. Norms were strong because new members were quickly challenged if they were not challenging their peers. In this supportive and demanding culture, these women were able to expand their businesses.90005
90004 90015 4. Speak up. 90016 High performance is a norm that needs to be defended regularly and vigilantly. There will inevitably be times you will be asked to make personal sacrifices to defend that norm. What you do in these moments is a sign to the team of your commitment to high performance — and, therefore, your worthiness to demand it of them. Here are three common moments: 90005
90032
90033 There’s an elephant in the room. As a boss, it’s your job to address these, especially when no one else is.If a corporate initiative is an utter but un-discussable failure, your team will watch whether you have the integrity to point out the emperor’s lack of clothes. 90034
90033 Your boss is failing to keep commitments your team needs in order to get their work done. All eyes will be on you to see how you handle it. 90034
90033 A chronic poor performer is a clear impediment. How you handle this situation will let your team know whether your highest value is keeping the peace or pursuing your mission.If you shrink from or delay in addressing this issue, you do not just lose that person’s contribution — you send a message to everyone else about your values. 90034
90041
90004 When you ask a group to step up to high performance, you are inviting them to a place of stress — one where they must stretch, where failure is possible, where interpersonal conflicts must be addressed. Rather than step into this uncomfortable place, some will watch for hypocrisy in you in order to excuse their retreat to safety.How you handle these crucial moments will either amplify or eliminate your influence. 90005
90004 Individual performance problems are far easier to address if you’ve done the work of establishing a norm of excellence. These four simple but important practices can rapidly and profoundly shift a group’s expectations in a way that leads to both better results and a substantially more rewarding work experience for everyone. 90005 .90000 meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary 90001
MEDIOCRE | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary
90002
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
.90000 Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre 90001 90002 I have a theory about why the notion of an arms race between human and machine intelligences is fundamentally ill-posed: the way to survive and thrive in an environment of AIs and robots is not to be smarter than them, but to be more 90003 mediocre 90004 than them. Mediocrity, understood this way, is an independent meta-trait, not a qualifier you put on some other trait, like intelligence. 90005
90002 90007 90005
90002 I came to this idea in a roundabout way.It started when Nate Eliot emailed me, pitching an article built around the idea of humans as premium mediocre robots. That struck me as conceptually off somehow, but I could not quite put my finger on the problem with the idea. I mean, R2D2 is an excellent robot, and C3PO is a premium mediocre android, but humans are not robots at all. They’re just intrinsically mediocre without reference to any function in particular, not just when used as robots. 90005
90002 Then I remembered that the genesis form of the Turing test also invokes mediocrity in this context-free intrinsic sense.When Turing originally framed it (as a snarky remark in a cafeteria) his precise words were: 90005
90013 90002 «No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. » 90005 90016
90002 That clarified it: Turing, like most of us, was 90003 90004 conceptualizing mediocrity as merely an average performance point on some sort of functional spectrum, with an excellent high end, and a low, basic-performance end.That is, we tend to think of «mediocre» as merely a satisfyingly insulting way of saying «average» in some specific way. 90005
90002 This, I am now convinced, is wrong. Mediocrity is in fact the 90003 sine qua non 90004 of survival itself. It is not just any old trait. It is 90003 the 90004 trait that comes closest to a general, constructive understanding of evolutionary adaptive «fitness» in a changing landscape. In other words, evolution is survival, not of the 90003 most 90004 mediocre (that would lead to paradox), but 90003 survival of the mediocre mediocre 90004.90005 90031 Optimization Resistance 90032
90002 Premature optimization, noted Donald Knuth, is the root of all evil. Mediocrity, you might say, is resistance to optimization under conditions where optimization is 90003 always 90004 premature. And what might such conditions be? 90005
90002 Infinite game conditions of course, where the goal is to continue the game indefinitely, in indeterminate future conditions, rather than win by the rules of the prevailing finite game. Evolution is the prototypical instance of an infinite game.Interestingly, 90003 90004 zero-sum competition is not central to this understanding of evolution, and in fact Carse specifically identifies evil with trying to end the infinite game for others. 90005
90013 90002 Evil is not the attempt to eliminate the play of another according to published and accepted rules, but to eliminate the play of another regardless of the rules 90005
90002 — 90003 Finite and Infinite Games, 90004 page 32 90005
90016
90002 Mediocrity is not a position on some sort of performance spectrum, but a metacognitive attitude towards 90003 all 90004 performance that leads 90003 90004 to middling performance on any 90003 specific 90004 performance spectrum as a side effect.90005
90002 Since we’re talking about intelligence, AI, and robots here, the relevant side-effect spectrum here is intelligence, but it could be anything: beauty, height, or ability to hold your breath underwater. 90005
90002 Or to take an interesting one, the ability to fly. 90005
90002 Back in the Cretaceous era, to rule the earth was to be a dinosaur, and to be an excellent dinosaur was to be a large, apex-predator 90003 90004 dinosaur capable of starring in Steven Spielberg movies. 90005
90002 Then the asteroid hit, and as we know now, the most excellent and charismatic dinosaurs, such as the T-Rex and the velociraptor, did not survive.Maybe things would have been different if the Rock had been around to save these charismatically excellent beasts, but he was not. 90005
90002 90068 90005
90002 What did survive? The mediocre dinosaurs, the crappy, mid-sized gliding-flying ones that would evolve into a thriving group of new creatures: birds. 90005
90002 90073 90005
90002 Notice something about this example: 90003 flying dinosaurs were not just mediocre dinosaurs, they were mediocre birds before «be a bird» even existed as a distinct evolutionary finite game.90004 90005
90002 The primitive ability to fly turned out to be important for survival, but during the dinosaur era, it was neither a superfluous ability, nor a premium one. It was neither a spandrel, nor an evolutionary trump card. It was just there, as a mediocre, somewhat adaptive trait for some dinosaurs, not the defining trait of all of them. What it 90003 did 90004 do was embody optionality that would become useful in the future: the ability to exist in 3 dimensions rather than 2. 90005
90002 So middling performance itself is not the essence of mediocrity.What defines mediocrity is the driving negative intention: 90003 to resist the lure of excellence 90004. 90005
90002 Mediocrity is the functionally embodied and situated form of what Sarah Perry called deep laziness. To be mediocre at something is to be less than excellent at it in order to conserve energy for the indefinitely long haul. Mediocrity is the ethos of perpetual beta at work in a domain you’re not sure what the «product» is even for. Functionally unfixed self-perpetuation. 90005
90002 The universe is deeply lazy.The universe is mediocre. The universe is functionally unfixed self-perpetuation, always in optionality-driven perpetual beta, Always Already Player 0.1. 90005
90002 What does mediocrity conserve energy for? For unknown future contingencies of course. You try not to be the best dinosaur you can be today, because you want to save some evolutionary potential for being the most mediocre bird you can be tomorrow, which is so not even a thing at the moment that you do not even have a proper finite game built around it.90005
90002 And this is not foresight. 90005
90002 This is latent optionality in mediocre current functionality. Sometimes you can see such nascent adaptive features with hindsight. Other times, even the optionality is not so well defined. The inner ear bones for instance, evolved from the optionality of extra-thick jaw bones. That is a case of much purer reserve evolutionary energy than dinosaur wings. 90005
90002 As Sarah argued in her deep laziness article, some sort of least action or energy conservation principle seems to be central to the way the universe itself evolves, at both living and non-living levels, but I have trouble with the idea of least effort as a kind of optimization, because you run into tricky problems of backwards causation.90005
90002 But if you think of it as just keeping some non-earmraked (heh) spandrels lying around, with the necessary biological surplus necessary to make wings and things, you do not need to worry about backward causation. Sometimes it is thicker jawbones, sometimes it is rudimentary wings. In every case it is slack somewhere in the design that manifests as mediocrity in performance elsewhere. Uncut fat in an evolving system that has no intention of going on a leaning diet. 90005
90002 I like to think of laziness — manifested as mediocrity in any active performance domain — as 90003 resistance to optimization 90004.90005
90002 If excellence is understood as optimal performance in some legible sense, such as winning a finite game of «be the best dinosaur» or «be the best bird» or «be the best avocado toast,» then mediocrity embodies the ethos of resistance to optimization. 90005
90002 When you do that, you naturally end up with middling performance, but that’s not the point. 90005
90002 Then perhaps the point is to do what computer scientists call «satisficing»? 90005
90002 Turns out that’s not quite it either.90005
90031 Mediocrity versus Satisficing 90032
90002 It is tempting to think of mediocrity as a synonym for satisficing, or good-enough behavior, but I think Herbert Simon, like Turing with the Turing test before him, got this partly wrong. The idea of satisficing behavior implicitly assumes legibility, testability, and acceptance of constraints to be satisfied. 90005
90002 You need a notion of satisificing behavior any time you want to define the other end of the spectrum from excellence as some sort of consistent, error-free performance.You do not seek the best answers, merely the first 90003 right 90004 answer you stumble upon. For some non-fuzzy definition of «right.» 90005
90002 This is just a different way of playing a finite game. Instead of optimizing (playing to win), you minimize effort to stay in the specific finite game. If you can perform consistently without disqualifying errors, you are satisficing. Most automation and quality control is devoted to raising the floor of this kind of performance. 90005
90002 This is a context-dependent way to define «continue playing.»Mediocrity however, is a context independent trait. 90005
90002 The difference is not just a semantic one. To pull your punch is not the same as punching as hard as you can, but neither is it the same as satisficing some technical definition of «punch.» 90005
90002 A pulled punch does not find the maximum in punching excellence, but neither does it seek to conscientiously satisfy formal constraints of what constitutes a punch. 90005
90002 Mediocrity in fact tends to 90003 redefine 90004 the performance boundary itself through sloppiness.It might not satisfy all the constraints, and simply leave some boxes unchecked. Like playing a game of tennis with sloppiness in the enforcement of the rule that the ball can only bounce once before you return it. 90005
90002 Mediocrity has a meta-informational intent driving it: figuring out what constraints are actually being enforced, and then only satisficing those that punish violation. And this is not done through careful testing of boundaries, but simple sloppiness. 90005
90002 You do whatever, and happen to satisfy some constraints, violate others.Of the ones you violate, some violations have consequences in the form of negative feedback. That’s where you might refine behavior. You learn which lines matter by being indifferent to all of them and stepping over some of the ones that matter. 90005
90002 You could say mediocrity seeks to satisfice the laws of the territory rather than the laws of the map. 90005
90002 Humans have a rich vocabulary around mediocrity that suggests we are not talking satisficing: 90003 dragging your feet, sandbagging, pulling your punches, holding back, phoning it in, cutting corners.90004 90005
90002 We are not usually pursuing excellence, but we are not satisficing either. We are doing something more complex. We are being mediocre. 90005
90002 This vocabulary suggests that mediocrity is performance that is aware of, but indifferent to, the standards of both excellent and satisficing outcomes. It generates behavior designed to minimize effort, whether or not that’s part of the performance definition in the current game. 90005
90002 Mediocrity is not about what will satisfy performance requirements, but about what you can get away with.This brings us to agency. 90005
90031 Mediocrity as Agency 90032
90002 I grew up with a Hindi phrase, 90003 chalta hai, 90004 that captures the essence of the ethos of mediocrity. It corresponds loosely to the English 90003 it will do, 90004 which is subtly different from 90003 good enough, 90004 but stronger as a norm. For example, the exchange, 90005
90002 90003 Chalega? 90004 (will it do?) 90005
90002 90003 Chalega. 90004 90003 90004 (yes, it will do) 90005
90002 is a common transactional protocol.A consensus acceptance of improvised adequacy. 90005
90002 90003 Good enough 90004 hints at satisficing behavior with reference to a standard, but 90003 it will do 90004 and 90003 chalta hai, 90004 get at situational adequacy 90003. 90004 To say that something «will do» is to actively and independently judge the current situation and 90003 act 90004 on that judgment, if necessary overriding prevailing oughts. The 90003 chalta hai 90004 protocol shares the agency involved in this judgment through negotiation, but it need not be.90005
90002 Indians constantly agonize about the pervasive ethos of mediocrity that marks Indian culture. The Hinglish phrase 90003 chalta hai attitude 90004 is frequently used as a lament, complaint, or harangue. Rather hilariously, the broader culture of 90003 chalta hai 90004 improvisation, known as 90003 jugaad 90004 ( «thrown together» roughly) enjoyed a brief tenure as the inspiration for a faddish business innovation playbook. I’m glad that’s over. 90005
90002 Something «will do» when it satisfices constraints that are not being ignored, and is indifferent to the rest, which usually means leading to minimum-energy defaults, whether or not they violate constraints.This can lead to conflict of course. 90005
90002 For instance, as a pretty finicky, ritualistic vegetarian, my definition of vegetarian does 90003 not 90004 include fish sauce, oyster sauce, soup made with chicken stock, or a sandwich from which the meat has simply been «taken off.» This has lead to trouble: mediocre restaurants will often try to get away with undetectable violations of a definition of «vegetarian» they are perfectly aware of. 90005
90002 There is an element of satisficing to this kind of mediocrity: it is satisficing only on 90003 detectable 90004 attributes of a thing.Effort minimization explains why this happens: a vegetarian will predictably, and with high certainty, complain about a big, visible slice of meat in a sandwich. So you might as well save effort and get it right the first time. But most vegetarians will not detect chicken stock in soup with other strong flavors. So that’s something you can get away with. 90005
90203
90204 90003 Excellent 90004 restaurants solve for customer delight by optimizing on variables the customer did not even know they cared about.90207
90204 90003 Good 90004 restaurants satisfice a customer’s requirements with sincere good faith, and correct any errors of commission or omission promptly, like honest, by-the-book bureaucrats. 90207
90204 90003 Mediocre 90004 restaurants serve you whatever they can get away with, based on an educated guess about what you might complain about. 90207
90204 90003 Premium mediocre 90004 restaurants throw in some cheap «excellent» flourishes that nobody cares about, so they can claim to be aiming for excellence without actually doing so.90207
90220
90002 Most of the time, it will not matter. You could say mediocrity is satisficing behavior against probabilistic expectation of enforced constraints, but that makes it seem way too deliberate. 90005
90031 Indifference as Gravity 90032
90002 Agency and satisficing are emergent aspects of mediocrity, not explicit calculations involved in the generation of mediocre behavior. You do not set out to be mediocre with the express intention of acquiring agency, or satisficing a constraint set.Mediocrity just happens with low cognitive effort. The engine is indifference. 90005
90002 Mediocrity emerges through feedback-based sublocal optimization: greasing of squeakiest wheels … and indifference towards quiet wheels. 90005
90002 Indifference is the gravity field that allows mediocrity to 90003 seemingly 90004 solve for minimum energy. It is actually a form of agency — a form of choosing not to care about distinctions that do not make a difference to 90003 you. 90004 Which means unless others have a way of noticing those distinctions and creating incentives via feedback to 90003 make 90004 you care, you will save energy.90005
90002 You do not so much solve for the mediocre solution as sag into it under the influence of indifference gravity, the way objects sag into minimum-energy shapes in gravity fields. 90005
90002 This kind of indifference-driven mediocrity is the hallmark of games where one side is playing a finite game and the other side is playing an infinite game that is not necessarily evil in the Carse sense of wanting to end the game for the other, but is not striving for excellence either. 90005
90002 Every principal-agent game is of this sort.Every sort of moral hazard is marked by the ability of one side to pursue mediocrity rather than excellence. In each case, there is an information asymmetry powering the mediocrity. 90005
90002 So understood in terms of agency, mediocrity in performance is a measure of a player’s refusal to play the game on its nominal terms at all, generally through non-degeneracy in hidden variables that are not active in the nominal game, but contain stored energy . 90005
90002 A couple more observations before we get back to AI.90005
90002 First, there is a deep relationship between bullshit and mediocrity. Bullshit is indifference to the truth or falsity of statements. Mediocrity is indifference to the violation and compliance of constraints. Where transgression involves deliberately violating constraints, mediocrity does not care whether it is in violation or compliance. Mediocrity is to satisficing and transgression as bullshit is to truth-telling and lying. 90005
90002 Second, there is also a relationship between Taleb’s notion of antifragility, and mediocrity, but it is not a clean one.Sometimes antifragility will point to mediocrity as the way, and other times mediocrity will exhibit antifragility (gaining from uncertainty). But you can have one without the other, and one at the expense of the other. The reason they seem close is that both represent forms of preparedness for unknown unknowns. Mediocrity is the presence of slack, held-back reserves at varying levels of liquidity. Antifragility is a property of certain capabilities. 90005
90002 Let’s get back to the problem I started with, being more mediocre than computers.90005
90002 Can computers be mediocre at all? 90005
90002 Unfortunately, yes. 90005
90031 The Lebowski Theorem 90032
90002 Joscha Bach recently tweeted a most excellent thought (😆) that he called the The Lebowski theorem (I am guessing it is a reference to 90003 The Big Lebowski 90004): 90005
90002 90264 90005
90002 The Lebowski theorem: No superintelligent AI is going to bother with a task that is harder than hacking its reward function. 90005
90002 Get it? 90005
90002 This is a perfect definition of mediocrity in computational terms, and unfortunately it means computers can be mediocre.And it’s not just a theoretical idea: there are plenty of actual examples of computers hacking their reward functions in unexpected ways and sandbagging the games AI researchers set up for them. 90005
90002 This post, 90003 When Algorithms Surprise Us, 90004 by Janelle Shane compiles a list of very clever ways algorithms have surprised their creators, mostly by being mediocre where the creator was hoping for excellence. These games that can be gamed are far more interesting to me than Go or Chess.90005
90002 For instance, there are instances of programs figuring out how to use tiny rounding errors in simulated game environments to violate the simulated law of conservation of energy, and milking the simulation itself for a winning strategy. Like the characters in 90003 The Matrix 90004 bend the laws of physics when inside. 90005
90002 There are instances of the programs actually rewriting the rules of the game itself from the inside, a literal case of Kobayashi Maru. 90005
90002 There are instances of programs respecting the rules of the game while blatantly violating its spirit.90005
90002 We have serious competition in mediocrity here. So far though, this surprising mediocrity in AIs is just that — surprising. It is not threatening or evolutionarily competitive yet. They are hacking out of their finite game environments, sandbagging performance evaluations, phoning it in, slacking off, gaming the system, cutting corners. Everything human sociopaths do in organizations. 90005
90002 But so far, they’re not doing it quite as well as we do. Computers have learned to be mediocre, but have not yet learned to compete at mediocrity out in the open world.90005
90002 This behavior — AIs hacking their reward functions and surprising us with their mediocrity — suggests that we are still not thinking quite correctly about the nature of AI. A good way to poke at the shortcomings in our understanding is Moravec’s paradox. 90005
90031 Moravec’s Wedge 90032
90002 Moravec’s paradox is an observation based on the history of AI: the problems thought to be hard turned out to be easy, and the problems thought to be easy turned out to be hard. 90005
90002 In the early days of Good Old Fashioned AI (GOFAI), researchers tried to get computers to be more excellent than humans at their most excellent.This meant things like logic, theorem proving and chess-playing. Back in the 50s, when these abilities were thought of as showing humans off at their best — our T-Rex side so to speak — it made sense to try and use computers to beat humans in these domains. 90005
90002 By the 80s it was clear that these were relatively easy problems, and what was actually hard for computers was things we considered trivially simple, like opening a door or walking down the street. 90005
90002 Turned out though, that just needed more horsepower.With deep learning it became clear that Moravec’s paradox was not quite an accurate observation. The so-called «hard» problems were not hard so much as they were just heavy. They just required more brute computing power driving the neural net algorithms. Once Moore’s Law got us there by the 2010s, the «hard» Moravec’s problems began to succumb as well. 90005
90002 So instead of easy and hard regimes of AI problems, we now have two easy regimes. They’re just easy in different ways. GOFAI regime problems yield to sufficiently careful encoding of domain structure and rules.And what you might call Moravec-Hard problems yield to more processors and memory. 90005
90002 These, roughly speaking, map to the two ends of the intelligence spectrum in my opening graphic. 90005
90002 Low intelligence is the rule-based, bureaucratic intelligence of basic automation that can be encoded in the form of relatively simple algorithms where correctness of operation is the key performance metric. Hence the online-forum insult of «go away or I will replace you with a simple shell script.»90005
90002 This works when the domain can be bounded tightly enough, and in a leak-proof enough way, that no learning from history is necessary. You figure out the general solution, and then execute it. There are no surprises, only execution errors. Anybody (or anything) capable of plug-and-play formulaic behavior can do it. This is bread-and-butter automation and replacing of humans in repetitive tasks with limited learning requirements. 90005
90002 Humans are mediocre at this. Robots and non-learning algorithms do this better because they do not get bored as easily.90005
90002 High intelligence, of the sort we tend to describe as prodigal genius, is 90003 also 90004 a case of the domain being bounded in a tight and leak-proof way. The difference is that the enclosed space contains an intractably huge number of possibilities with no general and tractable formula for the right behaviors. Here, learning to recognize patterns from history is key, and depending on how rich and complex your historical library is, your actions will seem more or less like magically intuitive leaps to people with smaller history stores.90005
90002 Turns out, humans are mediocre at this too. Deep learning algorithms do this better too. AlphaGo at least paid its respects to humans by learning from 90003 their 90004 history with Go. AlphaGoZero rudely threw away human experience altogether, played against itself, and got to performance regimes that seemed magical to human Go players. 90005
90002 And to add insult to injury, it went on to casually do the same to chess, a game that had previously yielded to very painfully engineered GOFAI work, with the Deep Blue type approach relying heavily on the human experience of chess.90005
90002 But mediocrity 90003 qua 90004 mediocrity? We still have an edge there. Humans are better at just being mediocre, period. Here’s my update to Moravec’s Paradox, which I call Moravec’s Wedge. 90005
90002 90003 The problems that are hard for us are easy for computers. The problems that are easy for us are also easy for computers. What is hard for computers is being mediocre. 90004 90005
90002 Why wedge? Because mediocrity is about slipping in the thin end of the wedge of evolutionary infinite-game advantage into current finite-game performance.Moravec’s wedge is about not playing the game defined by the current cost function with full engagement in order to sneak out of the game altogether and play new games you find in the open environment. 90005
90002 This sheds a whole new light on the Turing test. The challenge which Turing thought was the low-hanging fruit — replicating the mediocre intelligence of a CEO — is actually the hardest. It is the middling kind of intelligence marked by high-agency mediocrity. 90005
90031 Soft and Hard Mediocrity 90032
90002 There’s one last major wrinkle in our portrait of mediocrity.90005
90002 Remember Douglas Adams ‘story of the Golgafrinchans Ark B? 90005
90002 To refresh your memory, the Golgafrinchans got sick of the mediocre people in their midst: «telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives and management consultants.» 90005
90002 So they convinced these mediocrities that some sort of doomsday was looming and that they had to get off the planet in a big spaceship, the B Ark.The B-Arkers were assured that the rest would follow in the A and C arks. The A Ark would contain all the excellent people, Golgafrinchans at their best: scientists, artists and such. And the C Ark would contain all the people that did the actual work. Of course, the supposed A and C Ark people never left. 90005
90002 They thought they were being clever, getting rid of an entire mediocre, useless third of their population, but in an ironic twist, they are wiped out by a disease that spread through unsanitary telephones.90005
90002 So as it turned out, only the B Ark people actually survived. A case of survival of the mediocre. In the fictional universe of the 90003 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 90004 we humans are descended from the B Ark people, who ended up on Earth via some complicated plot twists. 90005
90002 What is interesting though, is Douglas Adams ‘enumeration of B-Ark types, which gets at a key feature of mediocrity. There is a difference between what I call soft and hard mediocrity, and most of Adams ‘examples are hard-mediocre.90005
90002 Soft mediocrity is mediocrity revealed through middling performance in domains where A-Ark excellence is actually possible on one end of the performance spectrum, and error-free correct, reliable C-Ark useful performance is possible at the other. So a mediocre chess player, or a sloppy assembly line worker both exhibit soft mediocrity, because both excellence and error-free play are achievable and meaningful. 90005
90002 Hard mediocrity, on the other hand, is performance in domains that are just so open and messy, there is no prevailing notion of excellence or correct, automatable low-end performance at all.90005
90002 Not surprisingly, hard mediocrity characterizes domains David Graeber characterized as «bullshit jobs.» 90005
90002 There is only one way to be a telephone sanitizer, account executive, or TV producer: a mediocre way. You may be wildly successful and make a lot of money in these domains but it has little to do with meeting clear standards of excellence or error-free functioning. You may even pursue some sort of Zen-like ideal of unacknowledged excellence, but that will seem arbitrary and even eccentric.The point of these jobs is mostly optionality. Mediocrity is the rational performance standard in such domains. 90005
90002 These domains do not fundamentally support a native spectrum of performance where excellence is really meaningful, because nobody really cares enough, and because the boundaries are too messy. 90005
90002 Because here’s the thing: what creates excellence is not that people are 90003 good 90004 at something, but because people 90003 care 90004 enough to be good at something.90005
90002 On the other end of the spectrum, what creates repeatable, error-free performance is not that people are 90003 good 90004 at it, but that the definitions are tight enough that «error» is well-defined, and people 90003 care 90004 about the errors. 90005
90031 Mediocrity as Subversive Agency 90032
90002 When caring is possible, and some people actively care, 90003 not 90004 caring represents agency for other people over those who do. And crucially, it is a somewhat power-agnostic form of agency.You can enjoy it even at the bottom of a pyramid. Mediocrity does not just have evolutionary potential, it has 90003 subversive, disruptive 90004, evolutionary potential. 90005
90002 A note on the disruption angle. 90005
90002 In disruption theory, a key marker of a disruptor is mediocre or non-existent performance on features the core market cares about. But while disruption always involves mediocrity, mediocrity does not always imply disruption. You would not say, for instance, that winged dinosaurs «disrupted» large flightless dinosaurs.Though they 90003 were 90004 mediocre on some core features (size, speed, Spielberginess) and boasted disruptive marginal features (wings), the forcing function was an asteroid, not disruptive intent. And the evolutionary niche of large land animals is now occupied by elephants, not birds. 90005
90002 But back to general subversion. 90005
90002 What happens when you do not care about excellence or perfect error-free performance in a domain? You level up and start making trade-offs between performance in that domain, and performance in other domains.This is at the heart of subversive action. 90005
90002 Star Trek, I think embodies this kind of mediocrity very well. Starfleet officers are all B Ark type bureaucratic bullshit-job mediocrities. They are rarely seen excelling at something or being perfect at executing something. Instead, they are constantly cutting corners here, muddling through there, and going with improvised hacks everywhere. And generally putting up a very mediocre performance by the standards of say, Vulcan intelligence, Klingon valor, Ferengi profit maximization, or Borg efficiency.When those non-humans adopt Federation culture, it is most evident in their adoption of mediocrity as an ethos. When they exhibit their «alien» traits, it is usually by regressing to an unfortunate pursuit of excellence in a specific alien way. 90005
90002 This is evident in the bureaucratic nature of how the Federation officers operate: they are constantly rerouting power from one subsystem to another, degrading performance and taking on risk in one area to increase performance and mitigate risk in another.They are all middle managers of an energy and optionality budget. Automated systems work below consistently, and «alien» excellences break out above on occasion. 90005
90002 Starships manage energy, not performance. Starships are deeply lazy. Starfleet captains aim to continue the game, not win every encounter. 90005
90002 One of my favorite examples of this ethos is an episode in TNG where Data goes up against Sirna Kolrami, the galaxy’s most excellent player of the difficult game of Strategema (who is there to advise the crew about their strategy in some war games).Data initially loses, but finally wins by simply dragging the game on, stalling endlessly, until Kolrami forfeits out of frustration. 90005
90002 This is not Deep Blue beating Kasporov. This is not even AlphaGoZero beating all human and AI comers at chess and Go. 90005
90002 This is an AI beating a human at mediocrity, hacking the reward function from outside the game proper, and proving Moravec’s Wedge wrong. 90005
90002 In the same episode, the crew tackle their war game situation with the same ethos (iirc, the war games turn real, and the crew prevail by ignoring Kolrami’s advice) 90005
90002 And this is not just fiction.Data’s strategy of mediocrity is also the essence of guerrilla warfare of any sort. As Kissinger noted, the conventional army loses when it does not win. The guerrilla wins when he does not lose. 90005
90002 That’s what it means to continue playing longer by being more mediocre than others in the field. Generalizing, the reason biological evolution from dinosaurs to humans seems to be driven by survival of the mediocre is that it is always up against an asymmetrically more powerful adversary, the unknowns of nature itself.The guerrilla way is the only way. Mediocrity is the only source of advantage. 90005
90002 Let’s wrap with a final subtlety. It’s not survival of the mediocre, it is survival of the 90003 mediocre 90004 mediocre. 90005
90031 The Mediocre Mediocre 90032
90002 One of the biggest sources of misconceptions about evolution is the fact that its most popular lay formulation is in the form of a superlative. Survival of the 90003 fittest. 90004 This leads to two sorts of errors. 90005
90002 The shallow error is to assume 90003 fit 90004 has a static definition in a changing landscape, like 90003 smart 90004 or 90003 beautiful.90004 It is the sort of error made by your average ugly idiot on the Internet. 90005
90002 This is not actually too bad, since at various times, specific legible fitness functions may be good approximations of the fitness function actually induced by the landscape. 90005
90002 The deep error though is to assume the superlative 90003 form 90004 of the imperative towards fitness. 90003 Fit 90004 and 90003 fittest 90004 are not the same thing. In the gap between the two lies the definition of mediocrity.To pursue mediocrity is to procrastinate on optimizing for the current fitness function because it might change at any time. 90005
90002 This is trickier to do than you might think. 90005
90002 In Douglas Hofstadter’s Metamagical Themas, there is a description of a game (I forget the details) where the goal is not to get the top score, but the 90003 average 90004 score. The subtlety is that after playing multiple rounds, the overall winner is not the one with the highest total score, but the most average total score.So to illustrate, if Alice, Bob, and Charlie are playing such a game and their scores in a series of 6 games are: 90005
90203
90204 Alice: 7 5 3 5 6 2 90207
90204 Bob: 5 8 2 1 9 7 90207
90204 Charlie: 3 1 5 4 5 5 90207
90220
90002 We have the following outcome. Bob wins game 1, Alice wins game 2, Bob wins game 3, Charlie wins game 4, 5, and 6. 90005
90002 So Alice gets 1 point, Bob gets 2 points, and Charlie gets 3 points. The overall winner is Bob, not Charlie. Charlie is the most mediocre, but Bob is mediocre mediocre.His prize is (perhaps) highest probability of continuing the game. 90005
90002 This is the counterintuive thing about mediocrity: it not only has to be resistant to optimization on external spectra, it has to be self-resistant to optimization. Being the best at being mediocre would defeat the purpose. You have to always be the most mediocre at being mediocre, because there’s always more game-play to come. 90005
90002 One way to remember this is to treat the infinite game of evolutionary success as a sort of Zeno’s paradox turned around.You never reach the finish line because when you’re mediocre, you only take a step that’s halfway to the finish, so there’s always more room left to continue the game. 90005
90002 That’s how you can consistently exist in the current finite game, and leave yourself open to the surprises (and the possibility of being surprising) in games that do not yet exist that you do not know you’re already playing. 90005
90002 And that’s how you continue playing. 90005
.90000 Definition of Mediocre by Merriam-Webster 90001 90002 The Enduring Moderation of Mediocre 90003 90004 One of the things that is remarkable about 90005 mediocre 90006 is the extent to which it has retained its meaning over the course of more than four centuries of continual use. The word, when used as an adjective, has changed very little, if at all, in its meaning since it was used in a 1586 book titled 90005 The English Secretorie 90006 (our earliest known evidence): «Mediocre, a meane betwixt high and low, vehement and slender, too much and too little as we saye.. . . »
The word comes to English via Middle French from the Latin word 90005 mediocris 90006, meaning «of medium size, moderate, middling, commonplace,» and perhaps originally «halfway to the top.» The noun form of 90005 mediocre 90006 is 90005 mediocrity 90006. 90015 90002 Examples of 90005 mediocre 90006 in a Sentence 90003 90004 They sensed that mediocre students like Roosevelt really did possess a set of virtues that needed to be protected and cherished. — David Brooks, 90005 New York Times Book Review 90006, 6 Nov.2005 Of course, it could be that what Wesley has been through steeled his nerves and transformed him from a mediocre point guard into one of the fiercest shooters in the league with the game on the line. — Chad Millman, 90005 ESPN 90006, 14 May 2001 In short, they’d have to build a first-rate health-care system out of the shantytown’s mediocre one-a system that would administer those drugs reliably and keep the patients ‘spirits up , because the second-line drugs are weak and have unpleasant side effects, which a patient has to endure for as much as two years.- Tracy Kidder, 90005 New Yorker 90006, 10 July 2000
The dinner was delicious, but the dessert was 90005 mediocre 90006.
The carpenter did a 90005 mediocre 90006 job.
The critics dismissed him as a 90005 mediocre 90006 actor. 90015 See More Recent Examples on the Web The rally is all the more impressive after considering a thoroughly 90005 mediocre 90006 core business.-
Charley Grant, 90005 WSJ 90006, «Down Is the New Up for Tesla Stock,» 2 July 2020 Detroit is trying to end two decades of having no better than a 90005 mediocre 90006 ground game.
—
Mark Inabinett | [email protected], 90005 al 90006, «Bo Scarbrough set for Detroit Lions ‘training camp,» 1 July 2020 Playing for a 90005 mediocre 90006 Arizona team without much of a supporting cast, Mannion (14 points and 5.3 assists per game) was bogged down by Pac-12 teams ‘scouting reports that focused on him.
—
Jeff Zillgitt, 90005 USA TODAY 90006, «NBA mock draft: Assessing the stocks of Anthony Edwards, LaMelo Ball, Obi Toppin in first-round outlook,» 25 June 2020 Our yellow sun, for instance, is not so 90005 mediocre 90006 in a galaxy where red dwarf stars are the norm.
—
Charlie Wood, 90005 Popular Science 90006, «The Milky Way could have dozens of alien civilizations capable of contacting us,» 18 June 2020 Fort Bragg was named for Braxton Bragg, a native North Carolinian and Confederate general with a reputation for bravery and 90005 mediocre 90006 leadership.-
Robert Burns, 90005 Anchorage Daily News 90006, «Trump: No change at bases named for Confederate officers,» 11 June 2020 Stop propping up 90005 mediocre 90006 white men and grooming them for leadership while grooming the balance of the populous for service under them.
—
Indianapolis Star, 90005 The Indianapolis Star 90006, «What prominent community members say should be done to make Indiana better for everyone,» 17 June 2020 Over the past three-plus decades, the Reds selection of 1st-round picks has been 90005 mediocre 90006 and that’s being kind.-
Paul Daugherty, 90005 Cincinnati.com 90006, «Doc’s Morning Line: The Cincinnati Reds payoff from the 2020 MLB draft is years away,» 11 June 2020 Fort Bragg was named for Braxton Bragg, a native North Carolinian and Confederate general with a reputation for bravery and 90005 mediocre 90006 leadership.
—
Robert Burns, 90005 Anchorage Daily News 90006, «Trump: No change at bases named for Confederate officers,» 11 June 2020 90004
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘mediocre.’Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
90015 See More 90002 History and Etymology for 90005 mediocre 90006 90003 90004
borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Latin 90005 mediocris 90006 «of medium size, moderate, middling, commonplace,» perhaps originally «halfway to the top,» from 90005 medius 90006 «middle, central» + 90005 -ocris, 90006 adjective derivative from the base of Old Latin 90005 ocris 90006 «rugged mountain,» going back to Indo-European 90005 * h 90082 2 90083 oḱ-ri- 90006 «point, peak, edge» (whence also Umbrian 90005 ukar, ocar 90006 «citadel,» Middle Irish 90005 ochair 90006 «edge, border,» Welsh 90005 ochr 90006, Greek 90005 ókris 90006 «top, point, corner»), derivative of 90005 * h 90082 2 90083 eḱ- 90006 «pointed» — more at mid entry 1, edge entry 1 90015 90004 Note:
The base 90005 * h 90082 2 90083 oḱ-ri- 90006 forms a pair with 90005 * h 90082 2 90083 eḱ-r- 90006 «sharp, pointed» (see acro-) and the two have been explained as part of an original » acrostatic «paradigm of a noun, with fixed stress on the root, o-vocalism in the direct cases and e-vocalism in the oblique cases, with Indo-European daughter languages generalizing one form or another.Note that Greek has both 90005 ókris, 90006 as above, and 90005 ákris 90006 «hilltop, mountain peak.» Perhaps also belonging here is Sanskrit 90005 aśri- 90006 «corner, angle, edge» (see at acro-), where the vowel may be either 90005 * a 90006 or 90005 * o. 90006 90015.