We are such stupid, self-destructive apes.
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I was asked to give a short talk on what I would change if I could change one thing about the world and it was human brains.
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They currently make us rationalise things however we can live with them & so reproduce. I'd reprogram them to seek truth & be sensible.
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I think we've always had enough reasoning ability to recognise that we have serious problems with our reasoning ability.
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Video games are fantastic outlet for this need.
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I think men might well be the ones with a need for danger.
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I think it's there in women as well, just to a lesser extent..but I think this about almost all personality traits. Everyone likes killing.
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That’s why England has been called an “island of shopkeepers”.
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That'd be "Nation of shopkeepers." Attributed to Napoleon. *If* he said it, he surely lived to regret it.
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Apologies. Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac in 1794 said it in a speech: “Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers”.
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it could have been any one of a number of people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_shopkeepers … It's most fun if it was Napoleon, though.
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Pity. Have a feeling things are going to be exciting and really interesting for a while.
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