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personally I think ww2 is a meme, one datapoint out of the entirety of natural history, but funnily enough scott aaranson used it to justify his anti orthognali
by zzzzzzzza 3y ago
personally I think ww2 is a meme, one datapoint out of the entirety of natural history, but funnily enough scott aaranson used it to justify his anti orthognality stance recently (axis scientists were mid tier compared to allies scientists partially because the allies were perceived as better morally aligned with the scientific community)
one point he made aside from that though, is that if you truly believe in orthogonality you should not value education or learning except to educate people who agree/are aligned with you.
I think he is wrong only in that orthogonality is even more obviously wrong than that.
- nullsense 3y agoIt's not really a meme when you read more of history. It becomes much more of a theme than a meme.
- NumberWangMan 3y agoA list of genocidal dictators: https://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html https://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html Anyone who comes into power enough to do something like this has a high amount of intelligence -- not necessarily book smarts, but the ability to persuade or manipulate other people.