We take idea of a ‘majority’ as self-evidently well-posed. After all, in a crowd, some view must be more popular than others and must be > 50% sometimes.
Not true. The idea of a ‘mass human’, whose main property is countability, had to be invented and imposed on humans first
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In all seriousness, I agree with you; the human species behaves as if infected by a statistical virus.
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Just realized I wrote this while my other window is a bunch of herd inventory and production models in Excel lol ... :(
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Seems congruent with the Sheep-Goat Effect, if you're willing to let telepathy seep into your worldview. (I suggest doing so; it's part of the CIA's). epsilontheory.com/sheep-logic/


