Subj : Re: Neuralink
To   : Andeddu
From : Moondog
Date : Wed Aug 19 2020 10:12:00

  Re: Re: Neuralink
  By: Andeddu to Moondog on Tue Aug 18 2020 08:38 pm

 >   Re: Re: Neuralink
 >   By: Moondog to Andeddu on Mon Aug 17 2020 09:34 pm
 > 
 >  >  > Yes... in a resourced based and social engineered society, poverty,
 >  >  > racism a all the other ills of the world can be eliminated. No other
 >  >  > civilisation in  history of man has achieved peace and ended suffering
 >  >  > with technology the is the prospect of making this happen.
 >  >
 >  > That says it will be done, not how it can be done.
 > 
 > Through an idological consensus, the less reputable ideas many individuals
 > harbour could be eliminated.
 > 
 > Diversity in ideas invariably ends in conflict. The idea of "the individual"
 > would have to end, and replaced with ideas of "the collective".
 > 
However it's that diversity that promotes change and growth.  When working in
IT in the nuclear power industry, I heard of a concept called "groupthink." 
It's actually a bad thing, because everyone thinks alike, and will blindly
accept an "experts" opinion as gospel without considering an alternative
outcome.  A good example of this in the scene in Apollo 13 where some figures
the only way to get the astronauts home is if they can keep their power
consumption below a seemingly impossible threshold.  the chief engineer says
that's impossible, and his folks accept it.  It takes someone outside his
authority to apply a questioning attitude to prove they were wrong.

Back in the 90's I took a quality workgroup training course that implemented
bringing in an outside person into a discussion to question the group why
they can't see the forest from within the trees.  In the forum, all were
considered equals in opinion.  Of course, the outside guy was always a manger
of higher rank, and acted as an authoritarian rather than a moderator. 
Groupthink killed quality improvement.

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