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Uninteresting reply because you've made a fundamental categorical error. I was clearly referring to psycho-social patterns, not arbitrary lists of technology.

• ben_w 3y ago
  First: no it was not clear that's what you were referring to. Second: given how much we've changed our environment, our food, the substances we take for mental health, any take regarding our "nature" must account for the impact of this environment Third: ditto nurture, as we now insist on educating ourselves to adulthood, and — in opposition to our earliest comprehensible written records — many of us are now in societies that reject things like slavery and husbands having arbitrary power over their wives (and increasingly, though to a lesser degree, religion); we have, essentially, domesticated ourselves.
  • boringuser2 3y ago
    The problem with your assertion that it wasn't clear what I was referring to is that it is contingent on the supposition that your mental ability put you in the category of someone I intended to present my ideas to.
    • ben_w 3y ago
      https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1984:_Misinterpretation https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1984:_Misinterpretati... (Yours would be a better insult had I not fallen off the top of the cognitive scoring mechanism when it was tested — which only means "at least +2σ" because it is poorly defined as a concept, but yours was still a woefully inept attempt at a put-down). I rather hoped that #2 and #3 would have given a hint as to why #1 — but "communication is not a single-player game" isn't just something I'm telling you so you can be better.