Do you get pwned more, or just by a different set of memes? The bottom 80% of humans on “taking ideas seriously” seem to have plenty of bad memes, although maybe the variance is smaller.
there are a lot of humans who don’t take ideas seriously in that they are very socially conservative and therefore rarely get pwned, in the sense that they mostly live the life that they expect they will live, no matter what memes they are exposed to (which may be a very bad life from your perspective)
Either I strongly disagree with you that there’s a big gap here, or I’m one of people you’d say are normies who lead lives they expect to live (among other definitional differences).
seems false, or at least uncharitable. do you expect that such people would self-report along the lines of “i don’t take ideas seriously”? it seems more likely to me that they would report something like “i value family”, and mean it. you may find the idea simple, but it is certainly an idea, and they certainly take it seriously.
put another way, this social conservatism came from somewhere, and is itself an idea. the assumption—that arguments that worked to change your behavior would not change their behavior—can be explained in two ways. either they do not take ideas seriously, as you suggest, or either they value different things than you.
Do you get pwned more, or just by a different set of memes? The bottom 80% of humans on “taking ideas seriously” seem to have plenty of bad memes, although maybe the variance is smaller.
there are a lot of humans who don’t take ideas seriously in that they are very socially conservative and therefore rarely get pwned, in the sense that they mostly live the life that they expect they will live, no matter what memes they are exposed to (which may be a very bad life from your perspective)
Either I strongly disagree with you that there’s a big gap here, or I’m one of people you’d say are normies who lead lives they expect to live (among other definitional differences).
seems false, or at least uncharitable. do you expect that such people would self-report along the lines of “i don’t take ideas seriously”? it seems more likely to me that they would report something like “i value family”, and mean it. you may find the idea simple, but it is certainly an idea, and they certainly take it seriously.
put another way, this social conservatism came from somewhere, and is itself an idea. the assumption—that arguments that worked to change your behavior would not change their behavior—can be explained in two ways. either they do not take ideas seriously, as you suggest, or either they value different things than you.