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@pope beanie – “where da women at?”

– this is just a conjecture, but it may be possible that this involves some broad overall differences between men and women.  I believe it’s true that, in the words of Kathy Burke, “women are just as orrible as men”.  But I think it’s also true that whereas, arguably, men relate to life more in terms of competition, or alternatively, intellectualising, women tend to see the world, and solve problems, more through cooperation and relationships.

Regarding the original question, I think the long term answer is to change the game entirely.  Instead of yet another dominance contest, perhaps we would all be better off if we knew how to cooperate better.

To this end, if there is a rational moral philosophy available, then we can target our actions more effectively.  This moral philosophy has some surprising properties, such as, the rate at which it grows and becomes more profound and more sophisticated very quickly, you just feed it a few facts and it generates new insights which then become incorporated into the main body and used to produce new insights.  So it grows very quickly, like some kind of developing brain, that demolishes uncertainty wherever it goes.  If one person (me) finds this, then if it is distributed among the world’s nerds and boffins, it has the potential to really take off and also it will always be cutting edge as it will always be generating new insights as required.  This can only be a positive move.