I've seen a few different articles about that sort of thing, it's interesting on a few levels.
The idea that you're looking around you, and you're seeing other people, and some of them aren't just not capable of solving the same problems as you like they're just less intelligent, but they fundamentally lack certain cognitive functions that we think of as essential to humanity. In that way, not only can you not communicate certain concepts to them because their brains just don't work that way, but they can't understand you because your brain has components to it that they can't even imagine because they don't have the machinery for it.
It would be like someone who is tetrachromatic; you can ask a person who has that condition what the world looks like, and how would they describe it to you? Your biology simply isn't set up to consider what they see as a possibility.
The idea that you're looking around you, and you're seeing other people, and some of them aren't just not capable of solving the same problems as you like they're just less intelligent, but they fundamentally lack certain cognitive functions that we think of as essential to humanity. In that way, not only can you not communicate certain concepts to them because their brains just don't work that way, but they can't understand you because your brain has components to it that they can't even imagine because they don't have the machinery for it.
It would be like someone who is tetrachromatic; you can ask a person who has that condition what the world looks like, and how would they describe it to you? Your biology simply isn't set up to consider what they see as a possibility.
I think the other one I read was on the mises institute website or something like that.
Honestly, while it was an interesting article from a thought provoking I wouldn't want dig it up to share it because it straight-up unironically and non meme racist against Africans.
Honestly, while it was an interesting article from a thought provoking I wouldn't want dig it up to share it because it straight-up unironically and non meme racist against Africans.
> You can justify all sorts of crazy policies, like eugenics, in professional / liberal circles, as long as you couch them in the right words and values.
I love what you said here because it encapsulates exactly what I believe. As long as you can stick a few smiley face stickers on something terrible, these people will support all kinds of objectively horrible policies because they sound nice.
It's something we all have to be careful of, especially with things we agree with, that someone can twist things that are fundamentally good into things that are fundamentally evil by getting people to turn off their brains and stop thinking for themselves.
I love what you said here because it encapsulates exactly what I believe. As long as you can stick a few smiley face stickers on something terrible, these people will support all kinds of objectively horrible policies because they sound nice.
It's something we all have to be careful of, especially with things we agree with, that someone can twist things that are fundamentally good into things that are fundamentally evil by getting people to turn off their brains and stop thinking for themselves.
I tend to strongly agree with what you're saying here. One of the reasons why the early internet came up with so many really cool things is that the people who were making those things were doing so because they enjoyed making those things and wanted to, not because they knew there was a Payday at the end of it. In fact, for a lot of the people there was no payday at the end of it.
Once all the stuff is being done for money, it changes into an optimization problem: instead of there being unlimited ways to do a thing, there becomes one way to do a thing, whatever way happens to make the most money. When you hear people who end up doing something that they enjoyed doing as a hobby, and they talk about doing it professionally you can tell that the character of the thing has changed. Whereas previously they could play around with things and try out different things, suddenly you have to do things in a way that's going to make money. I think that's where you see some of the breakdowns of YouTubers who start off doing things for fun, quickly transition into doing a professionally, and then find that they're stuck doing something like nostalgia reviews for the next 30 years.
Everyone needs to find a way to eat. On the other hand, not everything that you need to do in life needs to end in a paycheck. For me, makes more sense for a lot of stuff to be done using your own resources because you want to, from your day job.
Of course, all of fbxl.net is a monument to all the things I did for fun that I didn't get paid for (and even though I sell copies of the graysonian ethic, there will never be a day that I become profitable on that project)
Once all the stuff is being done for money, it changes into an optimization problem: instead of there being unlimited ways to do a thing, there becomes one way to do a thing, whatever way happens to make the most money. When you hear people who end up doing something that they enjoyed doing as a hobby, and they talk about doing it professionally you can tell that the character of the thing has changed. Whereas previously they could play around with things and try out different things, suddenly you have to do things in a way that's going to make money. I think that's where you see some of the breakdowns of YouTubers who start off doing things for fun, quickly transition into doing a professionally, and then find that they're stuck doing something like nostalgia reviews for the next 30 years.
Everyone needs to find a way to eat. On the other hand, not everything that you need to do in life needs to end in a paycheck. For me, makes more sense for a lot of stuff to be done using your own resources because you want to, from your day job.
Of course, all of fbxl.net is a monument to all the things I did for fun that I didn't get paid for (and even though I sell copies of the graysonian ethic, there will never be a day that I become profitable on that project)