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thinking seems like two things – a powerful engine (good memory, fast computation, abstractions) and a steering wheel (avoiding cognitive biases, noticing when beliefs are incentivized). But it’s way easier to tell if you’ve got a weak engine than if you’re missing steering
Our brains are super bad at noticing steering problems. We just steer straight into whatever validates us, and the faster your car goes there, the smarter we think we are. This is how u get people like my dad, who’s IQ tested 140+, but thinks evolution is a lie.
It also seems like it’s pretty hard to improve your engine, but it’s a lot easier to improve steering, given deliberate practice. I’d rather have a weak engine in a car that’s pointed in the right direction, than a powerful one in a car that’s pointed in the wrong direction.
Aella @Aella_Girl
Post on X here, here, and here on April 22, 2024
Interesting analogy. It seems pretty solid to me. I like her stuff. She has a different way of looking at things. More different than even I look at things. She has some very twisted Twitter surveys. Example:
Quick, don’t think, just vibe- are snakes more good or bad? || In general, you’re more sympathetic to Israel or Palestine?
Snake good || israel
Snake good || palestine
Snake bad || israel
Snake bad || palestine
And she made a blog post with a flow charts, statistics, and pictures from her birthday gang-bang.
Discussions like this may have influenced her Father.
https://voxday.net/2024/04/24/the-midwit-science/
Related: https://voxday.net/2024/04/25/every-critique-is-correct/
In short, the math doesn’t work out.
Absolute fastest evolution scenario put common ancestor of humans and chimps are ~50 M year ago (almost back to the dinos), based on best current genetic science and models and data and top people running it. Fossil record say our common ancestor is ~5 MYA, again according to current top people and best data. Sorry, both can’t be true. I’ve believed evolution for nearly my entire life, but in recent years the actual science points more and more to “can’t work within the timeframe of the know universe.” It’s an elegant, attractive idea, but it’s wrong.
Maybe the quoted person’s steering is wrong, and her 140+ IQ dad is correct…. yes, steering is hard.
Thanks Archer! Also read, TIA. (The Irrational Atheist), also by Day. (I believe it might be a free download.)
Between him and Chris Langan? The world can never be the same again.
Evolution isn’t a lie. It’s a debunked theory. Science and engineering have pushed way passed it. And it ain’t coming back.
Oh, and snakes=dead
Israel=Philistine= who cares? Just kill each other with your own money, OK?
More:
https://voxday.net/2024/04/25/every-critique-is-correct/
How do evolutionists control for and eliminate survivorship bias across their observations that they claim support their theory?
I wonder if her steering wheel recognizes the dissonance of saying ‘there’s nothing wrong with inserting dozens of dicks for a birthday orgy’, then going into great detail of the screening, independent STI testing, psychological profiling, socialization of rules, supply of prophylactics, and finally almost going over budget through hiring of security necessary to host such an event.
The beaten path is a beaten path for a reason. It is the path of least energy expenditure.
The further off it you go, the more you need planning, precautions, contingencies, logistics… her recognition of that need is at least intellectually rigorous. But most weddings need less work.
Going off the beaten path is necessary to forge a new path to something new. It is also a pre-requisite to proverbially starving to death in the wilderness as the path you cut behind you re-grows itself back to a wild state because nobody is following. She’s close enough to the mainstream in this endeavor to have (again, proverbially) established a seasonal tourist camping destination with little or no on-site utilities; an early-years Burning Man, so to speak.
She was referring to the moral aspects of the gang bang. Just as someone would take precautions when they go skydiving, the physical/biological precautions are independent from the moral aspects. After all, taking precautions before skydiving does not imply anything regarding the moral aspects of that activity.
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