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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Nov 2018
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      Been thinking a lot lately about this A. N. Whitehead quote: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them" Somebody quotes it at me every few years. It's a good idea but incomplete.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Nov 2018
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      There aren't that many important things that humans don't *want* to think about. There's a handful of unpleasant things, but mostly it's not that we don't want to think about stuff, but that we want to think about them *badly*... in ways that make it harder to do them

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Nov 2018
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      Kids like to think about teeth -- in terms of tooth fairies We all like to think about saving the world -- as superheroes We all like to think about justice -- in terms of super-soldier revenge fantasies We like to think about solving crises: in terms of personal heroism

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Nov 2018
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      So I'd amend to "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform while harmlessly fantasizing about performing them in wildly ineffective or impossible ways"

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        1. Chris Sattinger‏ @crucialfelix 1 Nov 2018
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          Flora and Fauna fail to advance at all (no intellectual evolution), Mankind inevitably consumes everything. Unfortunately we aren't so harmless.

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        2. Tamara 🍃‏ @tltroup 1 Nov 2018
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          Maybe. But an operation like alphanumeric order doesn't really stir the imagination, and it's the poster child of effortless operations.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Nov 2018
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          They didn’t teach you the alphabet song huh?

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        1. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd 1 Nov 2018
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          ...and use as a status signal.

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