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znjssjnsns
2mo ago
That same scientific community that gave us such wonders as thermonuclear bombs and agent orange? Please. I understand we need science, but we don’t need “intellectualism” and the various self-appointed guardians of whatever that is.
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znjssjnsns
2mo ago
Don’t bother, they don’t see it. It’s sickening.
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znjssjnsns
2mo ago
If you can’t pull it, you can’t move it and thus no useful work could be performed. Mechanical devices changed that calculus. The same will happen to “intellectual” work. Your understanding is slowing us all down.
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znjssjnsns
2mo ago
The intelligentsia and their various gatekeeping mechanisms are not guardians of “intellectualism”. They are representatives of a class that is seeing its end coming.
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znjssjnsns
2mo ago
It is so incredibly liberating to see the intellectual elite struggling with was already reality for 99% of the rest of us: your understanding is not required, it might in fact be detrimental as it amounts to a handbrake on progress. Unders
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znjssjnsns
2mo ago
Yes, but in practice that doesn’t happen. Again, I did not hear a loud protest against automation of all types of labor from the intelligentsia in the past. In practice automation is great, as long as it doesn’t hit “the ones that matter” (