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graydon ([personal profile] graydon) wrote in [personal profile] jsburbidge 2018-04-20 12:20 pm (UTC)

I might have said [that] there's a third option -- numeracy -- but would have to agree that our society isn't doing well with that, either.

(I don't mean "can do arthimetic", I mean "the graph has emotional meaning" and "has developed a modicum of statistical intuition". So far as I can tell, there's an active effort to prevent those things from happening.)

I figure the most likely outcome is human extinction. I can imagine how to get from here to survival (absolutely required industrial culture and all) but I can't imagine how to do it with the existing power structure opposing it at ever turn, and I can't imagine how to run the guillotines for a year and keep general legitimacy of government.

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