Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?

dope@lemm.ee · 10 months ago

Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?

dope@lemm.ee · edit-2 10 months ago

Humans are very concerned with dominance games. (See 99% of movies and games for massive evidence). We want to put the other guy down and establish ourselves as up. Contriving a justification for that is trivial. Any rationale is just another tool for that.

Humans are very concerned with having a consistent story for explaining their world. Any assertion that contradicts that story is gonna require shouting down. Which generally leads back to the prior paragraph.