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Last year I've realized (mostly from reading some pretty cool books) that I still had a lot of implicit assumptions about how the world goes. To my surprise, I
by radu_floricica 15y ago
Last year I've realized (mostly from reading some pretty cool books) that I still had a lot of implicit assumptions about how the world goes. To my surprise, I find myself leaning towards a soft form of conspiracy theory (or class war, if you will), of "us vs them".
To me this came from having access to a historical perspective. But the resulting shift was so subjective, so much like seeing the same things from a different perspective that I can no longer say with conviction that drugs like LSD could never do the same thing. The fact that a dose of a drug gives you no new information may not be so important, as long as it helps you rearrange the knowledge you already have.
- astrofinch 15y ago>To my surprise, I find myself leaning towards a soft form of conspiracy theory (or class war, if you will), of "us vs them". I wouldn't trust anything my brain said about intergroup conflicts. http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller
- itmag 15y agoLast year I've realized (mostly from reading some pretty cool books) that I still had a lot of implicit assumptions about how the world goes. Sounds cool. What books were those?
- radu_floricica 15y ago"Debt: The First 5,000 Years" is probably the most interesting.