<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Mike, I agree with you for the most part, but our system has some common sense type features the metric doesn't. A foot, for example (my foot is exactly 12 inches). Inches - one knuckle. Yard - my long step is 36" - easy to measure rooms etc. Metric has none of these. Maybe if you were raised in the metric system it would be better. As it is I have to convert to make sense of the measurement. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 9:49 AM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 19, 2023, 2:55 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 5:17 PM spike <br>
I can't think of a time when anyone (besides me) posting on the<br>
extropian list invoked an EP view. People talk about social and<br>
political matters as if there was no deeper level.<br>
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Have humans been selected to reject understanding their evolved<br>
psychological traits? Seems possible to me. <br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Re: deeper level - you may have noticed the length (and depth) of posts here (and in general) has decreased. I suspect this is a coping mechanism to deal with the accelerating rate of change: we have to run ever faster to not fall behind. tbh, I've made peace with the limit of my intellect. There are people smarter than me on this list; I do not need to compete or posture to assert superiority and I'm not threatened by it. I expect AI will soon enough force the rest of humanity into a similar position. (Well, plenty of doomsayers are very threatened by superintelligence)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Re: EP - you didn't have to convince me with a hard sell. It was more like someone struggling with imperial measures being shown the metric system and immediately recognizing "oh hell yeah, this makes sense" ... or trying to understand planetary position through retrograde motion and being shown the heliocentric model. In hindsight, the better model is so obvious the old one is abandoned as an embarrassing moment (much worse that the moment may have been the entire course of humanity trying to understand how/why of the world)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Re: reject understanding - surely we evolved attention span for external threats over internal states. ex: hearing bloodflow in my ears taking priority over approaching predators would be disadvantageous to survival. We have relative safety in the modern world for navel gazing; that's comparatively new in evolutionary time.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It may also be less an outright rejection and more a habitual return to the familiar; such as persisting with ounces (despite enlightenment of metric milliliters) because my measuring cup is graduated in ounces. Also, cognitive load (eg: new braining) is expensive... of course we would rather not expend the energy on deep introspection when shortcuts are working well enough to get by in the short term. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">btw, the length of this post feels too long as a single idea and too short to have properly developed multiple ideas into a full article. iiwii :)</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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