Please Do Not Uplift the Normies; They Are Comfortable, Happy, & Their Favorite Music Is Playing
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RT @eigenrobot
policy implications for normie uplifting are left to the reader
twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/

really tho Flowers for Algernon is possibly the best case study for why granting new intelligence to the average person is deeply cruel, especially since chances are they will not be able to truly take advantage of it given their lifestyle momentum

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ofc, its completely different when this is consensual, & one opts into the potentially deeply-terrifying realization of how badly they had been wasting their time spinning their wheels previously; but the default path should protect those not ready to face these existential wilds

@pee_zombie its not only that they spin their wheels and that sucks for them. But think also about what the extend of all the consequences of this might be. If they are the majority of the market, then their desire will make it so that i too am living in an environment mainly catering to (imo) "shit taste". And im not just thinking about "oh no, i must use proprietary software and also the cinema sucks", but im thinking about wich burnings and genocide and flogging and bullying etc etc. The way someone witg autism might get ostracised for speaking weirdly, someone with adhd might "get unpopular and become a criminal", all with the big contributing factor that the normie cattle dont wanna think a little further.
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