"Villains by Necessity"

Why do I feel like this blog hasn't provoked anyone to action?

The name of the file that this blog post was saved to is "impact <date>". It was meant to be a reference to the anime "Neon Genesis Evangelion". I considered using the word 'instrumentality' for something but it turned out to be a reference to a work by a different author so it didn't seem appropriate.

So, to be clear, the result of a lack of "broad awareness of the varying reliability of primary signals" is that some people will feel it is the morally correct action for them to kill other people. The purpose is to cause people to feel that displaying the appearance of using the strategy toward conflict of fulfilling your own goals is an ethical thing to do.

Some examples I can think of are...

Vince Li — Additional info: 'Please kill me,' accused pleads

Anders Behring Breivik, as mentioned before. Additional info: "You have already killed my dad, I'm too young to die"

Nanjing in WWII might count.

The recent incident in Canada might have been a consequence of Vince Li talking about aliens, I haven't really read much about it.

The consequence is signal pooling for the action "kill someone", even if the event does not seem to be the result of provocation and that person appears to be innocent of crime. Which is, of course, a different sense of the word than what is generally meant when saying that a young person is "innocent".

Given the nonzero incidence rate of this type of event, it logically follows that anyone who would like to avoid being killed should support changes which encourage critical thinking and reward honesty, while also addressing the problems that can cause people to feel that killing random people is the morally correct thing to do.

These, quite simply, consist of several things: 1) a way of accomplishing reasonable economic goals in an ethical manner. 2) accurate standards of achievement, so that "succeeding" is neither too easy nor "too hard" in the sense of having additional restrictions that other people do not have.

The reason why accurate standards of achievement are difficult to find has been described in previous posts like this one. To summarize, it is due to ambiguity over whether problems in the world are the result of selfishness or just the limits of human intelligence and the current stage of society's progression.

I can't really say I expect this post to have any effect, but if I had a completely accurate assessment of the distribution of ability in the world I wouldn't have needed to start this blog, would I? So I hope I have proved that basically all problems in society are the result of stupidity, and that refusing to support the accelerated work week is equivalent to saying that you are prepared to defend yourself against attack by a random person who feels that it is the morally correct thing to do.

It's like some people don't take martial arts training when they're young. Honestly.