Subj : Re: Neuralink
To   : Dennisk
From : Andeddu
Date : Tue Aug 18 2020 21:19:44

  Re: Re: Neuralink
  By: Dennisk to Moondog on Tue Aug 18 2020 09:14 pm

 > The reason that I think these implants are dumb ideas, is because the person
 > making the idea lacks self-awareness and understanding of the human
 > conditions.
 >  Our problems aren't information, knowledge, they are behavioural, and
 > people promote things for self serving interests, INCLUDING ideas such as
 > implants and dictatorships of the benevolent.  Everyone who imagines a
 > utopia, imagines one as per THEIR model. So it is automatically oppressive,
 > because it is person X who is imposing THEIR vision on us all.  I for
 > example, want to live in a world where different peoples still exist, where
 > nations DO favour their own over others and resist homogenisation.  I'm for
 > the powerfull bucking social and moral trends (as long as they don't
 > complete power), for struggle, conflict, antagonism.  Maybe, just maybe some
 > people with 'deplorable' views are actually holding views that make our
 > world better, but we are too prejudiced to see it.  The existence of that
 > antagonism is good, as long as there is balance.
 >
 > Development of a human being needs discipline, limits and self-awareness.
 > Our world would be a better place when people learn to control themselves,
 > manage themselves, overcome themselves.  A soft life doesn't do that.

Sam Harris posits that suffering is the only thing we can say is objectively
bad. A world with LESS suffering is objectively better than a world with MORE
suffering. Although basic, I think he's right.

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