once a person breaks or is broken through a specific cognitive barrier, rationalism becomes the easiest form of thinking and living. you could make it a bit harder on yourself and help your genes and synapses get back on track and your offspring evolve but you deliberately decide against it because it's less effort to succumb to the worst version of others than think about or work on any version of yourself.
math, science, money, the psycho-social level, it doesn't really matter. it's a bit like people who just throw the towel and accept what limits them or their endeavor and people who just engineer something to solve their problem and evolve.
rationalists throw the towel and accept what is, despite having all the evidence that it is NOT so. throw in some statistics and they'll take it (Quillette) as a general truth, emphasizing their understanding of the small sample, of course :D, and then they do a lot to make that truth work. that's why rationalist thinking in science and engineering and business falls short all the time. short of contextual potential and necessity, not under some utopian or dystopian "perfect conditions" but in the real world.
they follow something allegedly perfect because striving for the next better and forever imperfect thing triggers some psychological or linguistic trauma, the resolve of which they did not put in the work into.
this is commonly abused by "top-down" for status, covetousness, control, and it's the main sub-textual theme of therapeutic techniques and methods and everywhere in the advertisement and entertainment industry and trigger the whole reinforcement cycle as soon as they can get into the next generation of child or teen minds.
it's too poofy, really, as if poofy wanted to have their own concept behind why a different kind of poofy is their real self and requires numerous surgeries and entirely different sets of hormones from somewhere else in the animal kingdom. "it should cost a billion to look that good". wtf.
yeah, sure, there's statistics and algorithms, and linguistics can be twisted and turned either way but any proper scrutiny of these people and their thinking usually ends up in some whiny rejection to face illusions and the mechanics behind those illusions. it works, of course, but it really does not bode all that well.
It's enough to understand that if your narrative is "rational", it's about as rational as that of the Church when they fucked Jesus and some of the greatest scientists, inventors in history.
Rationality leads to Mafia-style thinking, buying wins and titles in competitions like the Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft and while most people don't care because it's just bread and games, it should bother rational people even more than anyone, because fraud breaks rational links. If A or B are complete fucking bullshit and actually unrelated to each other or their context, then A + B equals something that is not a rational result - not a result at all, actually.
I used to always think "organic" and "natural" evolution and development are better, but the "AI" industry proved that it applies to artificial evolution and progress as well. And it's all due to Game Theory rationality and whiny grown-ups with childhood trauma or the fear that their offspring might evolve beyond their methods and lose their position in the deluded hierarchies for the sake of better ways, better living, better loving, better thinking.
To give even more attack surface and inspiration: if you can't admit symbiosis is possible because you got mobbed or can't stand losing with or without sabotage, then you will attempt to break anyone who made symbiosis happen, going so far as to burn everything down that worked and is evolving __perfectly fine, or you slowly narrow the field of possibilities to prove some "self-fulfilling" systems effect (over time).
yup, and if it wasn't for all the leverage these guys have, despite NDAs, there'd be more influx due to abuse of access to sensitive data. LLMs can come up with bunches of ways how to leak info without revealing one's identity, so it's safe to assume people in higher level positions have bunches of actionable strategies already in place
well, shit. judged from a neural/human perspective, super-rationality is THE objective Ideology on top of everything.
"Free from Ideological Bias" kinda means "everything goes", "evolution shouldn't be so picky", and "we do _that_ because we _can_ and we don't do that because we don't want to even though it's the right thing to do" ... the latter being a bit far off course when it comes to A(G)I ... IMO
yeah, after decades of following code words and their political, social and economic manifestations, I guess I just can't help but avoid doing the opposite, except maybe take it as the exact opposite.
and a bureaucratic one as well. in Germany, they want to trim bureaucratic necessities while (not) expecting multiple millions of climate refugees.
lot's of undocumented STUFF (undocumented have nowhere to go so they don't get vaccines, proper help when sick, injured, mentally unstable, threatened, abused) incoming which means more disease, crime, theft, money for security firms and insurance companies, which means more smuggle, more fear-mongering via media, more polarization, more hard-coding of subservience into the young, more financial fascism overall, less art, zero authenticity, and a spawn of VR worlds where the old rules apply forever.
plus more STDs and micro-pandemics due to viral mutations because people will be even more careless when partying under second-semester light-shows in metropolitan city clubs and festivals and when selling out for an "adventurous" quick potent buck and bug, which of course means more money pouring into pharma who won't be able to test their drugs thoroughly (and won't have to, not requiring platforms to fact check will transfer somewhat into the pharma industry) because the population will be more diverse in terms of their bio-chemical reactions towards ingredients in context of their "fluid" habitats chemical and psycho-social make-ups.
but it's cool, let's not solve the biggest problems before pseudo-transcending into the AGI era. will make for a really great impression, especially those who had the means, brains, skills, (past) careers, opportunity and peace of mind.
is there a map with spots where cases like these are more likely to occur?
or some algorithm/ graph of algorithms that walks through paths and surrounding noise to find spots where known variables correlate with or are somehow linked to cases of flu X?
and shouldn't the public be a little more involved in this? or at least universities, citizen science projects?
(new) Data Sources and methods of collection have been maxed out, or rather, reached a plateau or, to be radically honest, the homogeneity of founders / techies / researchers has reached an unhealthy maximum / imbalance, which happened because VC and the financial culture in general is ... well, a bit too IQy, ...
it's a bit like psychology that, despite being true and insanely valuable, is bad for crowd control, to put it in slightly conspiratorial ( cooperative portfolio ) terms.
and there's of course the issue of the variety of engineers they grew and research fields they expanded. the narrowing of the playing field, in general.
but hey, let's read some PG article that distracts us with fake honey & not really milk, produced in shlobbering portfolio communist environments that spread back doors into teen minds to use perverted live telemetry to build poofy, roofie-craving consumers
math, science, money, the psycho-social level, it doesn't really matter. it's a bit like people who just throw the towel and accept what limits them or their endeavor and people who just engineer something to solve their problem and evolve.
rationalists throw the towel and accept what is, despite having all the evidence that it is NOT so. throw in some statistics and they'll take it (Quillette) as a general truth, emphasizing their understanding of the small sample, of course :D, and then they do a lot to make that truth work. that's why rationalist thinking in science and engineering and business falls short all the time. short of contextual potential and necessity, not under some utopian or dystopian "perfect conditions" but in the real world.
they follow something allegedly perfect because striving for the next better and forever imperfect thing triggers some psychological or linguistic trauma, the resolve of which they did not put in the work into.
this is commonly abused by "top-down" for status, covetousness, control, and it's the main sub-textual theme of therapeutic techniques and methods and everywhere in the advertisement and entertainment industry and trigger the whole reinforcement cycle as soon as they can get into the next generation of child or teen minds.
it's too poofy, really, as if poofy wanted to have their own concept behind why a different kind of poofy is their real self and requires numerous surgeries and entirely different sets of hormones from somewhere else in the animal kingdom. "it should cost a billion to look that good". wtf.
yeah, sure, there's statistics and algorithms, and linguistics can be twisted and turned either way but any proper scrutiny of these people and their thinking usually ends up in some whiny rejection to face illusions and the mechanics behind those illusions. it works, of course, but it really does not bode all that well.
It's enough to understand that if your narrative is "rational", it's about as rational as that of the Church when they fucked Jesus and some of the greatest scientists, inventors in history.
Rationality leads to Mafia-style thinking, buying wins and titles in competitions like the Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft and while most people don't care because it's just bread and games, it should bother rational people even more than anyone, because fraud breaks rational links. If A or B are complete fucking bullshit and actually unrelated to each other or their context, then A + B equals something that is not a rational result - not a result at all, actually.
I used to always think "organic" and "natural" evolution and development are better, but the "AI" industry proved that it applies to artificial evolution and progress as well. And it's all due to Game Theory rationality and whiny grown-ups with childhood trauma or the fear that their offspring might evolve beyond their methods and lose their position in the deluded hierarchies for the sake of better ways, better living, better loving, better thinking.
To give even more attack surface and inspiration: if you can't admit symbiosis is possible because you got mobbed or can't stand losing with or without sabotage, then you will attempt to break anyone who made symbiosis happen, going so far as to burn everything down that worked and is evolving __perfectly fine, or you slowly narrow the field of possibilities to prove some "self-fulfilling" systems effect (over time).