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And epistemology to help build the firewall's list?

"It is the mark of an educated mind, to be able to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting nor rejecting it" --Whoever said that.

Wouldn't a better thing to teach be innovating upon technology and social structure, such that we no longer even need taxes? Nor any other rents designed to keep us down and impoverished. Imagine where we'd be now if not for the suppression of all the emancipatory technologies. All those patents being sat on, or secreted[1]. All those inventors usurped or disappeared. We have so much more headroom.

If education were not so corrupted and riddled with nonsense and slave conditioning, perhaps there'd be fewer rejecting it; fewer throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We can all be polymaths in the making, not slaves in training.

[1: According to patent office whistle blower Tom Valone, (iirc) there were already over 3000 free energy device patents secreted by the year 2000. Seriously. We have so much headroom without the corruption. Even the rich parasites would be better off, with the release and proliferation of the emancipatory technologies. ...Buuuuuut, that's not in most people's world view to which they're attached, and so, they tend to go on attack upon encountering mention of such, as if this new information is a threat to their life.]

Because there's no valid nor sound singular-pecking-order, and typically those "smart people" respected as "so smart" are "smart" in other aptitudes than the social aptitude and ruthlessness to so social climb and manipulate to be "in charge".

I very often say: we can all be polymaths in the making, not slaves in training. If/when we do so proceed that way, we'd catch more of these follies, and seek better protections and implementations and systems, than just leaving it to the most ruthless social climber, the most effective liar, getting in charge.

A person is smart. People are dumb.

Well between the anti-vaxxers and any-vaxxers, the any-vaxxers won, by measure of how many took the jabs, believing "follow the science" without detecting an oxymoron.

Beware the power of advertising and ignorance of epistemology.

I ask, because, I'm not sure if the 2nd from bottom level was called "suppression", nor am I sure (at all) what was the elaboration in the "violence" layer. ... But I hope I've at least remained faithful to the spirit of it. Eager to hear any corrections. Or even, if anyone finds the original extended version, that would be great to compare to.

I use something like 9 gentoos.

All the best garbage to learn from, to debug, debug, debug, sharpening those skills.

Heh. That's a fun chart. If that's programming aptitude, I scored 80 on that part of the broad spectrum aptitude test I got a sneak-peek chance to do several parts of. Well now I know why I'm so easily in agreement with "senior coders", if it is programming aptitude quotient. If it's just iq, ... pulls hood up to block the glare.

Daunting that there may be a middling bias getting apparent advantages. Evolution may not serve us well like that.

And many between "seniour developers everywhere" and "a layman who never wrote code in his life".

Like me, I'm saying it too. A big ol "No duh".

Disbelieve the hype.

... Yeah but... that experience... Never mind. If you're offering that, you missed the point.

Oh, and I've had OBE NDE too... the line's blurred.

"First thing they taught us in StarFleet medical school. Tricorders, good with living people, not so good with dead." -- Dr Bashir to Kira in DS9... or words close to that effect.

People come back from being dead all the time.

Or at least somewhere in that blurred line.

Even these days?

I admire your optimism. ;D

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Especially if declining to look.