That’s a big if. And “real world” is shakey too. Yr running with a stretchy hypothetical here.

Except for poetry. When you wake up from your dreamcoffin you’ll still have your poetry skills and a few memorized poems.

First : the algorithm predicts thar our behavior today will be like our behavior yesterday. Which makes sense.

Second : what you eat determines how you poop. And they do control what we eat. So that makes sense too.

So both work together.

This is truth

And after 20 minutes yr exhausted and leave.

Srsly. I can’t believe they went with “the alien looks like dad” bs and skipped the math thing

The carl sagan : contact

The movie is good but the book is better

Downloading both immediately

Thank you very much

Fiend Without a Face 1958

Vintage claymation

It might be voice to text. It sometimes gets carried away.

Just put little silver skulls on the front of your hats already.

Google keep. That yellow thing. Take notes constantly. SO useful. And voice to text. Wow

I relate. Dread every day.

My answer was to draw and read scifi all day. Let my grades slide. Ignore everything.

I graduated because… I dunno. I think they just wanted me out of there.

“informed”

Lol

But I kid. Your logic fails to escape the box I propose, I think. I think that only direct observation achieves good reliability. That and maybe conversation with personal friends.

Beyond that, big nope. It’s the epistemological equivalent of drinking out of lead cups except the damage is quicker.

Everybody say it all together now…

I’m an intelligent, autonomous, free-thinking individual!

Society is insane. Gotta deal with that somehow.

I’m a rural carpenter. I fly under all radar.

For the first 12 years of my life I had an ongoing “this is what reality is” story in my head that I worked on basically daily. It was a model, or an explanation.

I stopped when I got seriously into videogames

Finish the paper, or don’t, the outcome is the same. You don’t have to worry about the paper anymore. Which is what really matters here.

The second way is easier.

So get your fluoride some other way, like in the toothpaste. Everybody wins.

I appreciate your concern. But to your first point.

Intelligence is biased towards intelligent expression and interpretation. That limits it, in expression and perspective. Seeing through intelligence-colored glasses. Expressing though an intelligence-preferring filter.

But we are larger than our intelligence. And this larger form has its own expressions.

Though we, as individuals and a culture, are in the habit of ignoring this larger self. It exists. Like the invisible part of an iceberg underwater.

If you had to guess, what form would this “loss of social skills and non-mating” take in a human population?