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Machines should continue supplanting all real, hard thinking for us, but intellectualism as conflict resolution (instead of status posturing or physical fighting) is a good ideal and should be revitalized at some point.
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Good = bliss Bad = feelings of inadequacy Short term = conflict Long term = chaos Anti-intellectualism in an unstable state in society as they will keep fighting among themselves with no intellect to resolve issues
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Without steelman intellectualism we go back to premodern society. So more reliance on social skills, less functional legal and commercial systems (less wealth), less social mobility
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Anti-intellectuals practice believing things that are not supported by evidence. Belief without evidence is a skill. Practice makes perfect and the skill transfers to other areas of life. The quality of one's life is determined by how well we interact with reality.
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