[ExI] The world would be so much better if everyone knows everything

[William Flynn Wallace]

will wrote:  We should live in close-knit communes where children are
raised jointly, people make their own food and energy, and art and
scientific innovation are produced within.

Ah yes, the thinking man's Eden.  I think it would work only with smart
people, but making their own food and energy would take a lot of time away
from intellectual creativity and research.  There are some things that need
to be outsourced.

And people are doing the opposite:  moving away from the countryside and
into the cities where growing food is impossible in quantity.  But I would
love to live in such a place as you describe, where I can garden without
having to do all the weeding, and intellectual companionship is close by.
That said, I think the history of the successes and failures of communes is
pretty dismal.

bill w

On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 6:34 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 7:17 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> And if the Saudi and Iranian citizens knew who the secret police were
>> *and* how little threat different religions and homosexuality actually
>> posed.
>>
>>
> This is a different kind of knowledge.  This is everyone knowing TRUTH.
> As opposed to knowing actions, behaviors, opinions, etc of others.  The
> latter is fairly possible in some kind of dystopian world.  The former is
> more of a magic thought experiment kind of thing.
>
> Sort of a nebulous concept anyway if it's not pared down.
>
> In any case, I don't think knowing about everyone else's life is
> necessarily good.  Too much information.
>
> We should live in close-knit communes where children are raised jointly,
> people make their own food and energy, and art and scientific innovation
> are produced within.
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20200208/b81dd924/attachment.htm>