starting to suspect the great human binary divides people who (can? do?) separate empirical claims and abstractions generally from Machiavellian social considerations, and those who can't or won't
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Like--consider (eg) kerfuffle over TBC. My guess is the main lay objection reduces to "you're going to use this to get an edge on me." And I'm not sure that's an invalid concern, honestly! Point is that normie spectrum folks are relatively, especially predisposed . . .
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. . . to view abstractions as social plays and there's nothing to be done about it but avoid letting your threatening abstractions leak to the MOPs. Once it's out, defending it as an *idea* is pointless, because the MOPs aren't interacting to an idea but to a social danger.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I would engage with this but I don't know what TBC is also of course my disagreement for MOP theory is on the record but that is secondary
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that works but how does it relate to thermal-based cloning or whatever TBC is
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TBC contained data that arguably made Group A look bad, the typical critique was "this is bad because it might be used to hurt Group A and while we're at it the author is bad too"
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ok at this point i am able to derive from context that you mean The Bell Curve but gol dang bud you could have just told me
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even saying those words is inviting trouble :c
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argh i thought that was why you were being coy but i am in an incautious mood today, should have pondered a second longer
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