Highest impact for human flourishing? Understand progress, its barriers and enemies: - Irrationality - Coercion (including internal) - Anti-rational memes - Parenting (entrenches barriers) - Create & improve institutions / traditions of knowledge (spread progress; keep it going)
1st thought: there’s def some kind of status quo pref/overconfidence/lack of fallibilism constellation that contributes to all of these 2nd thought: ...but also just a lack of fun-seeking and curiosity and play, and everyone likes these things, so maybe therein lies the leverage
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Maybe some practicals/actionables could be crafted out of the play and curiosity and fun-seeking. They might be challenging while the underlying mechanism that suppresses them is still there, though. So perhaps also learn the mechanism and its workings as they impede play.
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Good ideas and bad ones have really big implicit impact on their holders. You can struggle with the bad ones and try to smoke them out or follow the good ones and let their implicit content work their magic. Sometimes the latter fixes the former indirectly & w/o struggle.
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