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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I'd say cows have more individual will but otherwise yes. I understand people so much better after working with cows
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I found the post very illuminating, especially the back and forth between things like that grisly strangling episode and abstract game theory
If you have such insights from cows you should maybe write a cow logic post sometime
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Once I started to recognize humans as herd animals my love for both humans and other herd animals grew, and I became more hopeful about the world.
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I should. It'd be interesting to chart my perception now and compare with future grazier self.

