I keep oscillating between "there are too many people on this planet" and "we need more people on this planet" and the reason for both is that people are so fucking stupid.
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We should have way more people not only on this planet but on others as well
Yes, but then we have more idiots to drag us down with.
On the other hand, I don't see any way to increase the total output of our species without increasing the total number of individuals.
It's a numbers game, after all.
some people are amazing!
I think people individually are mostly great, but in groups they behave as retarded schizophrenic monkeys
You can't be smart and pro-social. Those intersect just enough to repel each other.
I've never met a great person. I have met great ideas. I've seen people who had great moments. I see a lot of great potential.
I like the idea of people, but I'd recommend enjoying the concrete examples with a healthy distance.
There is a reason why decent people always keep their distance.
We need less bot-people and more critical thinking people.
It is not even that they are, “so fucking stupid”.
The bot people outsource their morals to a social body of some kind rather than doing the hard work of introspection and studying their relationships to the broader community and acting accordingly.
There are many different reasons why intelligent people become bot-people.
Many intelligent people have a depth of knowledge, not a breadth of knowledge.
That makes outsourcing difficult, complex, time consuming, anxiety ridden problems the intelligent thing to do, at least on cursory inspection.
This outsourcing is the equivalent to a malicious software escaping its sandbox and gaining root privileges. This often leads to great suffering not immediately but over time. History is filled with examples of a moral majority committing atrocities for the good of all mankind.
So yes!
There needs to be more people.
And also yes!
There needs to be less people.
I abbreviated, but yeah 💯 nothing to add. That's how I see it too.
Intelligence and character are inseparable. You can't understand one without understanding the other.