once technology makes human motivations actually as malleable as social constructivists demand that they already are, the number of fashion trends necessary to wipe out the species falls to 1 so that's something to look forward to
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a preference falsification cascade is when the more people pretend their motivations are X, the more punishing it becomes to *not* pretend your motivations are X. you recognize these all around you, obviously now imagine if it weren't falsification, but just straight rewriting
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the most salient examples are, of course, unsafe to speak, or they wouldn't be both what they are and salient but let's say affection for the Communist Party in Stalinist Russia
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see also laundry list http://www.brucesabin.com/private_truths_public_lies.html …
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