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infinite_ass

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  • What are the pros and cons of a sterilizing (~95%) plague?

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  • Why would the economy and society collapse?

  • What are the pros and cons of a sterilizing (~95%) plague?

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  • Assuming overpopulation, food shortages, war, starvation, suffering of billions. Depriving people of the power to reproduce seems the kinder path.

  • What are the pros and cons of a sterilizing (~95%) plague?

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  • So brave

  • What's the longest amount of time you spent trying to find something?

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  • I spent 10 years looking for a good 2d geometry flooping paradigm.

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • If you have been manipulated into accepting a fact, surely that casts the fact into doubt.

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • Yes, the difference between "right according to firsthand observation and judgment" and "right according to the consensus and all its organs". They are worlds apart. That is the nub of my gist here.

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • The world is not an action movie with clear divisions between good and bad. Keep that in mind.

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • No, I meant right as in correct.

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • I doubt that final clause. Sure you can free yourself of your truths. You only need to sacrifice a bit of face, ego and maybe certainty.

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • Bob makes a precise observation and thus concludes that the earth is round.

    Rob is told that the earth is round, in school, and thus concludes that the earth is round.

    Are they both right?

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • I think every nation offers that argument, not just Hitler.

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • That's generally all we've got. Nobody has time for science or whatever.

    But if you had evidence that you were manipulated, that would make you feel less certain in your rightness. Right?

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • A virus would. But a man should be certain that he's propagating truth, surely.

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • Exactly.

    If you had evidence that you are a victim of manipulation, it shakes your certainty.

    Shouldn't it?

  • If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?

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  • Via the mind-manipulating technique called "propaganda" an idea is inserted into your head, and the rightness of the idea too.

    Understand?

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  • That's rather beside my point. As you well know.

    Why play these games?

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  • Case in point

  • Is language mostly solipsistic?

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  • In the past you received a symbol, and a meaning to go with that symbol.

    In the present, you refer to that meaning when you see that symbol.

    Yes, there was some kind of deeper communication in the past. The dictionary was written (among other things. Like the vastness of non-symbolic experience. Sensations and such).

    But in the present, in the act of "reading", it's just you, the dictionary (symbolic and nonsymbolic) and the symbol stream. However you slice it, the dictionary is large and the symbol stream is small.

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  • I never met the fellow. I never did the science either.

    You all are easily impressed.