im succumbing to peer pressure from @natural_hazard to not only read this blogpost, but also to poast thoughts
https://samzdat.com/2018/03/07/everything-is-going-according-to-plan/ …
tldr: the quest to ground our ideals will fail as long as we idolize truth
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the problem is not that we lie (for we must) its that we suck at it we use vague abstractions that barely mean anything humanism in particular is bad, because humanists completely ignore any counterarguments and barely even check for causation "wonder and stardust" is nonsense
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in order to have an ideal world, we must make ideal humans this is a problem if you (like everyone else) are not an ideal human hence the utopia, the no-place, can never be
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