This is one reason why humans deserve extinction. The human mind is awful at deliberative thought.
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Deliberative thought is exhausting after only a few seconds. A species that can't think for 30 seconds at a time, doesn't deserve space
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Take a moment to imagine the world that would result if everyone spent 30 seconds thinking about something. The planet would be charred.
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There's a good AE Vogt book where earth passes out of a zone of space that skewed capicitance. Everything with nerves became smarter.
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Animals began easily escaping traps, humans overnight became geniuses.
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And not one jot of that intelligence helped. Humans became simply better able to justify what they already believed.
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Massive wars and conflicts break out because these supergeniuses not only are more persuasive, but able to build deadlier weapons
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People, with an extra few hundred IQ points, simply became able to come up with more elaborate, persuasive crackpot theories
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Consider a nazi. Imagine if that nazi sat down and really spent 30 seconds thinking through something.
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You really wouldn't want the result of that thought process. That's why nazis need to be killed.
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I like how this specific tweet can exist without context.
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