Back to the raft and rope metaphor: The mass of humanity is basically all the rafts in this giant sea. How BIG this sea is really needs to be felt.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i93Z7zljQ7I&ab_channel=HarryEvett …
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The gatekeepers are right. Such egregious stupidity and immaturity will lower the bar for all of society. The teachers are to blame. Punish them. Lower their pay. Maybe that'll solve the problem.
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The spirit of Slavery is like rounding up a bunch of rafters as food to exploit. E.g you create a massive group of stupid people like you would a cattle farm. Everyday you choose a select slice of Wagyu Beef to enjoy.
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Stopping this thread here for now. Key idea I wanted to pull on was the "Rope as Boundary" paradox and the "Fundamental Loneliness" issue. There's possibly more interesting ideas in the "Humanity as Rafts" analogy.
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Addendum thought: The most we can ask of another is "Tell me what you see". We can't literally "See" how someone else's consciousness is interpreting photons. The greater our mastery of this "rope" of English, the more 'alive' our interaction is despite its low fidelity.
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E.g., with enough brainpower, we can communicate with 0s and 1s and describe infinitely detailed ideas. (But the 'Truth' of what someone elses sees is a whole different level of infinity.)
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