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The hardest part is if you have a dentists that insist on anesthesia must work, but it wont, so you must act your ass off to prentend to not be in pain, so he wont push syringe after syringe, doing nothing and waiting for 15 minutes in between while your tooth is already open with the root canal drills in.
And there is also a zoo of complexity when it comes to "sentience", meaning there are those who are "great thinkers in the subconcious" and can not explain there thought process. There are levels of sentience and almost automated task, were the subconcious kicks in and the sentient human just "dissolves" for a moment, like driving home in a car. Its a fascinating topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) Obligatory Watts Reference, cause his book really does have a interesting look on the zoo of humanity.
Sometimes when you try to gamble a system and the system can gamble you right back, you pay dearly, in this case by having highly paid lawyers do telephone support.
Then you get promoted and oversee the same procedure of poisoning humanitys well executed by a younger generation.
This sounds like a typical US thing. Suffering from a solveable problem, while creating the maximum public drama and having the society incapable of reform as a sort of greek-tragedy-background chorus humming nimby.
Should such topics be removed similar to us-healthcare to give important topics with actual solution discussions more room?
MA, MA, MA
Means, if you delete one small file you need one confirmation, if you delete thousands, you need a intent stating i expect thousand files to be deleted. Same goes for size. So not a okay button, but instead a form allowing you to enter the dimension of the intented outcome. 100 files max, 1 gb max deleted.
If the request goves over the intent, the system aborts.
Now, if we are all uniform fit, it might be interesting to conspire to produce one unfit to feed to tigers, lions and bears. Thus mobbing is the creating of a sacrfice of the social unfit and a filter functionality of old society against the brutes.
Now for the rule of law. The rule of law is the ability control mobbing by majority vote, aka religion. We mob a class of humans into social service, give them power and withold power, if they refuse to uphold basic contract society.
Thus regressive behaviour is a sexual selection criteria and contract religion unavoidable. Human society is nothing form and shapeable, but limited in a special ed way.
Which is why humanity will not go to space today.
Nor tomorrow.
We will spend about 300 years fixing the flaws we inheritted in something close to special ed, with social implants and learning self-control.
No, you can not vote on that.
Neither can the murderous dictator you want to push your agenda.
StarTrek is not djungle creature wheel chair accesible.
Its nice that the whole gathered knowledge of the fqalantir research is slowly leaking outwards though. Humanism is not comfort, humanism is to try to become self aware of the horrible & flawed in us and repair.
Comfortable pandering to the emotions we inherited is regressive.
To punish a car-driver for his rewritten accident memories cause of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade , no matter how just it feels and how much he feels he deserves it, is foolish. Instead force to car to adhere to speed limits, as the creature that drives is always retarded.
There needs to be the ability to have a "grown up" conversation, without the "retarded" interrupting by chanting "marx & evangelical" texts && just preaching a return "to the natural state" which is just "instinct feels good" praising every buffon chanting "for the return to the savannah". Downvote away all you want, you priests and believers, the dead are more interesting conversation anyway.
At the end of this, you become a stranger in your own life, programmed into the small details by somebody else, who then leaves you because you are "boring and predictable".
Beavers will build dams and lodges into the infrastructure, will undermine the whole river bank and start damning up canals. Its easy to cheer this on from a nature in the abstract loving position.
But in the real world, this results in the need for constant repairs and downgarded performance.
If the headline was "German bombers drop smart anti-infrastructure water-bombletts into thames \ blitz getting more expensive by the day \ pratchett fans cheer for modern Ankh Morpork" it would describe a similar situation, without the disney googles and nobody would celebrate it.