Philosophy and Science: The Essential Humanness

16:55	Popper	dez_, GET A FUCKING JOB YOU LAZY BUM
16:55	Popper	SMARTEN UP
16:56	Popper	there
16:57	dez_	Popper: what will you do if i earn more than you?
16:57	dez_	That will take about a decade
16:57	dez_	But im sure it will happen
16:58	dez_	I assume youre in the 70k bracket
16:58	dez_	And that you will stay there for a long time
16:58	Popper	dez_, I would be surprised if you were more useful than I am, making more money than me as a government employee would be easy
16:58	Popper	get a job in the justice system
16:58	Popper	you'll be making 20k a month in no time, you'll be a fucking useless parasite leeching off the taxpayer
16:58	Popper	but
16:59	dez_	I left law school exactly because i despise public service
16:59	Eriu	Popper is not useful.
16:59	Eriu	Popper hates evidence. This causes his right-wing mind to punch downward rather than upward.
16:59	Eriu	He innately beliefs in the validity of human hierarchies, no matter if those hierarchies are just or producing useful outcomes.
17:00	Eriu	Therefore, even though the waste/fraud of the poor is nothing -- less than 1% of GDP -- he spends his chat time on that topic.
17:00	Eriu	You'll see him use almost none of his cognitive resources on the war and theft and betrayal of the American project by those higher in the hierarchy than him, e.g. the American government led by the Republicans.
17:01	Eriu	This isn't to be understood as political variation, as contemporary cognitive science has revealed cognitive patterns are primary to 'political variation'.
17:01	Eriu	He, like much of his species, innately beliefs in social stratification. His ideology, as it is, does not make America or any other modern nation state great.
17:02	Eriu	He is a victim to the Nash equilibrium generated for us by the ecosystem in which our species evolved.
17:02	Eriu	Social hierarchies are an effective way to sort sexually reproducing fitness.
17:02	laceless`	Too bad, Popper, it seems like you and he should be pals.
17:02	Eriu	Why should we not mindlessly continue this pattern into the future?
17:03	Eriu	Because evolution made an aspect of itself capable of reflection, which allows intragenerational change mediate through neuronal learning, as opposed to genomic mutation/selection.
17:03	Eriu	The entire point of the human species is to do philosophy, to do history, and to do science.
17:03	laceless`	If you're just going to monologue, Eriu, you can do it somewhere else.  Nobody cares about your meaningless self-absorbed babblings.
17:04	Eriu	Casting our introspective eye on the patterns in our own species and how that explains human emotional, social, and political actions is The Essential Humanness.