My recurrent nightmare is a secret room of seemingly earnest folks utterly unaware of their own sanctimony, cognitive limitations, or even the dangers of unintended consequence, trying to figure out how to cryptically coerce anyone smarter than they are to think 'properly'.
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To make this concrete, imagine a room full of Talebs...
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It's all pretty funny actually.
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He's blocked me, so...
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Or imagine it being done by those most in opposition to your views on religion or politics Whoever you are or whatever you cherish Or taken over in the future by such a group
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From this I discovered something quite sinister. Remember that bit in Bill & Ted at Waterloo when Ted's younger brother declares with hilarious brevity "He's a dick!" about Napoleon? It's been cut from the film for TV in the UK and you can't find it on the web. Then there's...
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...the other really funny bit when Ted falls down the stairs in a suit of armour and Bill thinks he's dead. When they hug after they call each other "fag!". That's gone too. The two best jokes in the movie. Gone to PC purgatory.
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@nntaleb 's entire ouvre is dedicated to making "cognitive limitations" and "unintended consequences" known. -
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