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> Someone has to be last That makes it possible, not likely. For any population N > 2, it's less likely that you'll be last than that you will not be last.
by jacobtwotwo 7y ago
> Someone has to be last
That makes it possible, not likely.
For any population N > 2, it's less likely that you'll be last than that you will not be last.
- dylan604 7y agolooking at the data, it’s like we’re trying our damndest to be last. Defunding education, limiting what can be taught (ex: Texas removing critical thinking), etc all seem like we just enjoy tripping on our own shoe laces
- Supermancho 7y agoYou're focusing on the wrong scale. Intelligence has skyrocketed in the past thousand years. Policy decisions in our lifetime, do not matter or they end all human matters at once.
- moate 7y agoCertain policy decisions matter on a larger scale. Killing off millions of people has to have some meaning on future abilities, right? I think that generally I agree with you, but I would tend to say you have a small (but >0) number of things that would have huge long term ripples.
- JudgeWapner 7y ago> Defunding education, limiting what can be taught Many people became educated and even advanced science before the government got involved in education.
- JackFr 7y agoIndeed who's to say if the current worldview we share is a knowledge maximizing one.
- JackFr 7y agoActually someone has to be latest, and rather each civilization for some time t will have its turn at being the latest.