Comments on: RAW quote: intelligence blocking

By: Scott Bartlett

Scott Bartlett — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:24:00 +0000

I guess, then, that maintaining intelligence involves somehow staving off declining brain plasticity.

By: benettfreeman

benettfreeman — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:16:00 +0000

One in which information becomes dismissed because it does not conform to the prior programming of the robotic mind. For example, if someone says to you “If we want a world with less violence, we should eradicate all governments”, you might think “But who will build the roads?”, since your prior programming MIGHT have included the tenet ‘Only governments can provide public services’. This tenet of course becomes instantly rebutted by the argument (made by Hans-Hermann Hoppe) that ‘Just because monkeys can ride bikes, doesn’t mean that ONLY monkeys can ride bikes.’
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By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:55:00 +0000

Nevertheless, if you had sufficient intelligence to do so, you could do even better by processing more of the data. In other words, our sensory input exceeds our ability to process it, but it is in principle possible to do better than any human ever could.

By: loroferoz

loroferoz — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:55:00 +0000

Ergo censorship can make a society stupid.

By: Jacob Ewing

Jacob Ewing — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:47:00 +0000

I’ll go out on a limb here and ask someone to explain to me what a “robotic reality-tunnel” is supposed to be.

By: Walt Guyll

Walt Guyll — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:28:00 +0000

Indeed. Science, as ” a systematic body of concepts” qualifies as ideology.

By: atimoshenko

atimoshenko — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:57:00 +0000

Never blocking anything produces a cacophony. Intelligence is the ability to figure out which patterns – produced by (temporary) selective blocking of most of the rest of reality – are useful under which circumstances. Dogma is trying to use one pattern for everything. Ignorance is the inability to discern the existence of a possible pattern. Disinterest/dullness is a fear or a laziness that leads to an unwillingness to go against/beyond previously identified patterns (and censorship a promotion thereof). And fantasist irrationality is the tendency to invent patterns by working backwards from desired conclusions.

By: Comedian

Comedian — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:57:00 +0000

“Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us.”

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:02:00 +0000

amen.