I realize that. I'm just saying that "reject the government" is a radical choice. It's not something the average first world citizen is going to think about. US government has been eroding the freedom of americans for nearly a century now. American citizens have a bigger arsenal than many actual countries out there. And what do they do with all of those weapons? Literally nothing.
Only those who are willing to die have the power to truly change the world. Those who don't want to die are dominated by those who do. The average citizen of a civilized society has a lot to lose. They don't want to die over nothing. They want to get even richer and enjoy an even better life. It's the people who have nothing to lose and everything to gain who are radicalized.
is the only part i.e., we perceive what brain predicts no more no less. Optical illusions demonstrate it well.
Sometimes that prediction (our perception) correlates with the light reaching the retina. But it is a mistake to think that we can perceive it directly. For example, we do not see the black hole in our field of vision where there are no receptors (due to our eyes construction).
Another example that makes the point clearer: there are no "wetness" receptors at all but we perceive wetness just fine.
It’s an important point: all our sensations are interpretations of readings from various sensing abilities.
Which is why it can be so easy to produce false sensations of many things. It’s like tricking your fridge into turning the light off by pressing the little switch instead of closing the door. The fridge isn’t detecting when the door is closed, it’s detecting with that switch is pressed and interpreting that as meaning the door is closed. However that interpretation may not always be correct.
To get perspective(we know what worked), here’s some 50+ years abstractions:
A file is a simple stream of bytes in Unix. (If you think what else it might be then compare to Multics’ segments). Separate processes that may be connected using simple standard I/O streams [pipe] (vs everything is DLL in Multics) — the concept of shell itself (policy vs. mechanism separation http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html ).
The stackoverflow was better than what was before it (*sexchange site). Time will tell how it compares to the AI slop of the dead internet (current generation of LLMs based on human-generated data are great. Let’s see what happens when most of the data is created by bots).
I don't get how camp 1 can ship more than one version (do they jump teams/companies each time?). If your code is immovable mess then how do you add features/fix bugs in time?
There is a considerable overlap between people who believe that a reality tv personality has real power and those who believe that reality tv is unscripted.
You even may be called freedom fighter from the start if you are trying to displace government in the right country. There are plenty of examples.
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