Close your eyes and imagine it. Extrapolate the result. If that were true, then… then you’d have a big problem and no easy way to fix it, that’s what you’d have. Does this universe look familiar?
I can’t stress this bit enough. If we could truly get over this Blue/Green dance, maybe we could get to finding out what works. Instead, it seems we only keep finding out which rhetorical techniques work (Spoiler: they are the same ones that worked 2500 years ago).
A consequentialist high IQ community is likely to converge on a solution that maximizes living standards rather than ability to smash others and take their stuff (and rationalize it). Guess which one has won historically?
every successful social organization meme is about taking something away from others, even if it’s just a moral high ground.
That’s why I always advocate rationalists shutting up and getting rich (unless you’re directly working on existential threats). Just a few of us getting rich will have a larger impact than all the prosthelytizing in the world.
That’s why I always advocate rationalists shutting up and getting rich (unless you’re directly working on existential threats). Just a few of us getting rich will have a larger impact than all the prosthelytizing in the world.
Making people less stupid greatly reduces my personal irritation at stupidity, and I find that a really strong motivation to continue. YMMV, of course.
I can’t stress this bit enough. If we could truly get over this Blue/Green dance, maybe we could get to finding out what works. Instead, it seems we only keep finding out which rhetorical techniques work (Spoiler: they are the same ones that worked 2500 years ago).
A consequentialist high IQ community is likely to converge on a solution that maximizes living standards rather than ability to smash others and take their stuff (and rationalize it). Guess which one has won historically?
every successful social organization meme is about taking something away from others, even if it’s just a moral high ground.
That’s why I always advocate rationalists shutting up and getting rich (unless you’re directly working on existential threats). Just a few of us getting rich will have a larger impact than all the prosthelytizing in the world.
Making people less stupid greatly reduces my personal irritation at stupidity, and I find that a really strong motivation to continue. YMMV, of course.