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If you're not aware of it, LessWrong is a good forum for enhancing your knowledge via discussion in a rational way. Unfortunately the majority don't want logical discussion, as there's no direct benefit to them in the short-term and it's much harder to think that way and you'll be excluded from your ingroup because you're going against the grain.
You can lead a horse to water, you can't make them think deeply about 'boring' things.
Thank you. I had not heard of it before, I'll check it out.
Edit: This was an interesting read.
You might be right. But at the end of the day, when everything goes to shit, at the very least I can honestly look into the mirror and like what is looking back, someone who tried to make things better. /shrug
That's a good point. I need to stop being so jaded, it never leads to anything positive.
But it is hard, having fought time and time again to get a single person to halfway see the reason. I can only hope that a seed has been planted when I do, and eventually it will grow.
For sure its not easy, especially when there are those with a personal interest to have anarchy via psyops/propaganda, but its something we all really need to strive for.
That's all we can do really. That, and participate, again for no other reason than for self-respect. Any extra good that comes out of that is just a bonus.
That's a favorite of mine, and also a good way to show the honest, rational debate of LessWrong. Has "politics is the mind-killer" been a mind-killer?
GreaterWrong is a nicer way to read LessWrong, IMO.
Thanks for that too.
Damn, you're really sending me down the rabbit hole. 🤔 😀