@PurpCat @beardalaxy I get it. Obviously that wasn't the effect I had intended.
@beardalaxy I'll delete it since it is fucked up. Thanks.
@beardalaxy sorry, I won't do that again.
@beardalaxy what do you mean?
@robey useradd
One tool to help enhance human cognition requires years of childhood training.
It's quite the investment to apply universally but it pays off. It enhances human memory, ability to reason, absorb information, ability to calculate and do accounting, it also helps with communication. It makes more complex societies possible. It also enhances entertainment.
This tool integrates a primarily auditory symbol system with a visual one.
It's called reading and writing.
@PNS That dude has really low testosterone. If ever any of us were uncertain about being on the right path, listening to weirdos like this one, leaves no doubt that we should hold fast.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.”