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For anyone who wants to take a stab at the mind: "wordcel vs shape rotators" postulates that rhetoric proficiency, memory, and "attention" is not all it takes. It is the logical thinking and strong abstractions that makes a person what he is. The socialites and polemicists who fear AI, are already themselves subconsciously progressive socialists, even if they claim to be conservative or libertarian. Ironically labor and craft (including driving) are less likely to be displaced. https://roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/the-verbal-tilt-model

> You’ve been trained to avoid quality and appreciate mediocrity.

His "mediocratopia" is already hinting at a horrifically realist thesis: that the large majority of the population that cannot transcend as if they were Greek "hylics". The Gervais Principle "Sociopaths" and "Clueless", or its contemporary, Erik Dietrich's "Opportunists" and "Idealists", provides a solution... that strategic avoidance elevate shape-midwits (philosophers) into favorable positions while pushing wordcel midwits (rhetoricists) into disadvantageous positions.

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