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Anyways, this is what I think Jacob means in the book when he writes about preserving the efficiencies of the market/Capitalist mass production. It entails pruning the branch at the juncture where Keynes predicted that the efficiencies obtained through mass production would eventualy allow for 15 h...

I did not present any vision of a ‘utopia’ nor do I think my questions reflect “dreamy” thinking– why are you addressing it that way? I’m providing specific examples that do not seem to be beyond the capability of “what you can actually do.” And I would argue, have argued , these relatively easy to...

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Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:15 pm

Most religions have sought to ban these vices.

Too much competition, maybe?

...until welfare issues are integrated into systems design at Level Yellow/Turquoise. Which is exactly where/why WL8+ is going, no? ERE is Yellow level systems design. So the few WL9-10 individuals getting blamed for the fall of capitalism or the welfare state are indeed contributing to the general...

IOW, it seems to me that you are profoundly confounding E/I with N/S and T/F in your post above. I am, for the sake of the argument, trying to keep it simple without losing generality here. Adding more neurotransmitters (GABA, serotonin,... complete list ) or exceptions to the argument would only s...

Some of the anti-capitalism sentiment reminds me of this: https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=12146 It's funny/interesting, because the counter-arguments I encounter in [fairly SD:Green] Denmark (my other "general interface with the public") is rarely ever about the &q...

Height is immutable. The cognitive functions we are speaking about (MBTI) are not. My degree of introversion is not fixed for life. If I am placed in an environment that requires me to be more outgoing - using the term du jour - I can mask it until my brain rewires and my baseline extroversion rise...

@bsog - I think it all comes back to "render unto Caesar's". ERE is first and foremost a pragmatic strategy for individuals to deal with the system AS IT IS while bringing about the [next] system as it could be. ERE1(individual)->ERE2(city)->ERE3(inter-nation)->.... EREn If we could trade/...

+1 on the pre/trans issue. At Kegan5 people start accepting and incorporating all 8 cognitive functions into their being. However, Kegan5 only comprises 1% of humans which leaves the other 99% floundering in the "cultural or societal water they swim in". So to answer @Ego's question, diagn...

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Simplistic calculation of how many X's are out there. Assuming that 68% fall within one standard deviation and calling that X. (This holds for all dimensions except N/S which is 30/70 rather than 50/50 like the other three.) 4X: C(4,4)*0.68^4*0.32^0 = 1*0.21*1 = 21% (non-typed, average human, everyb...

Unless it has changed, I'm seeing ( ERE Wheaton table v2, 2021 ed. ) that Level 10 is described as "embodying philosophy, leading by example, virtuous fulfillment", "infinite games". That's still the most recent version. The stages are described a bit in more detail here: https:...

@AH - I really like the title of that post. I presume it's well-known, at least on the forum, that I'm not a fan of current trend towards pathologizing anyone who falls outside an increasingly narrow normative mainstream range, where the choice seems to be between average/norm or somehow sick. I'm a...

I read somewhere that Rationals tend to visualize their life linearly. Creating a WOG (collection of vectors) is just doing an extremely good job of visualizing/projecting your life linearly. The WOG method is just a way to get people out of the "optimized box"-thinking that dominates WL4...

@AE - You got it! It's basically a sense-making exercise for the meta-game. This becomes obvious in retrospect after understanding the language. The [new] language is exactly what makes it possible to make sense of it. [Language is basically a tool for that. It is not the only tool, but that's anoth...

But I had a question about if the goals you envision while doing things are positive or negative goals. Specifically, something like "save money" might be seen as a negative goal (you are avoiding a negative/loss aversion) whereas "make money" is a positive goal (adding somethin...

As a former pro gamer who has played tournaments of all sorts for a multitude of games. Were the games all within the same category, e.g. FPS, or did you play different categories too, e.g. FPS and RTS? Did you find that the skills/talents transferred between games such as game equivalent of IQ for...

Many or most humans would also imbue the word "home" with emotional, psychological and relationship connotations. As in "home" is the place where I feel safe. "Home" is the place where I can be myself. "Home" is where the heart is. They would use the word &qu...

Humans who are primarily interested in Achievement (Wealth is a form of Achievement) are likely to avoid both the lowest risk (dull, low pay-off)and the highest risk opportunities. Since the highest risk opportunities are well associated with Creativity, there is a fairly clear trade-off between Ac...

What is the right perspective? I don't think there's a right way, but there are in my opinion a bunch of wrong ways. Ownership is just a matter of degree. Even if you "own" the home, the government still wants you to pay taxes which is a form of rent (real estate taxes = royal estate rent...