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"Ordinary People"
are incapable of:
Actual self reflection/introspection -understanding their own thought processes and how those are affected by the outside world and how they effect the outside world.
Actual empathy and fully understanding a concept- either being able to see how another person might think or feel in the situation, that though the other might seem evil or irrational, was acting based on their own viewpoint, OR being able to imagine a computer program the same way as a list of instructions on how to go and buy bread, being able to look at a car and see all the pieces working together
Quickly learning concepts via simple examples: Working at a factory for a week shouldnt just teach you how to put tab A into slot B even if thats your job, it should teach you how parts flow works, how general assembly lines work, how fast staged actions actually occur (how a widget might take an hour to build, but one is produced every 10 seconds), how other related objects are likely manufactured
Deconstructing the world into parts and principles: They rarely can be shown a new object, how it works and be able to understand what is actually going on inside, how its functions relate, how it might be made more efficient, imagine a parts explosion without actually taking it apart, figure out how it was designed on theory to work versus how it was finally implemented
Understanding long scales and thinking outside their own egocentric understanding: "Life is about me", "The world didnt exist before or after me", "my personal beliefs are the right ones and others are just unable to understand why", why its obvious the world operates on millions of years not thousands, that mankinds entire existance has been or will be but a blink of an eye to the rest of the universe and how nothing they do will be of any particular significance unless they try to go beyond the norm
are incapable of:
Actual self reflection/introspection -understanding their own thought processes and how those are affected by the outside world and how they effect the outside world.
Actual empathy and fully understanding a concept- either being able to see how another person might think or feel in the situation, that though the other might seem evil or irrational, was acting based on their own viewpoint, OR being able to imagine a computer program the same way as a list of instructions on how to go and buy bread, being able to look at a car and see all the pieces working together
Quickly learning concepts via simple examples: Working at a factory for a week shouldnt just teach you how to put tab A into slot B even if thats your job, it should teach you how parts flow works, how general assembly lines work, how fast staged actions actually occur (how a widget might take an hour to build, but one is produced every 10 seconds), how other related objects are likely manufactured
Deconstructing the world into parts and principles: They rarely can be shown a new object, how it works and be able to understand what is actually going on inside, how its functions relate, how it might be made more efficient, imagine a parts explosion without actually taking it apart, figure out how it was designed on theory to work versus how it was finally implemented
Understanding long scales and thinking outside their own egocentric understanding: "Life is about me", "The world didnt exist before or after me", "my personal beliefs are the right ones and others are just unable to understand why", why its obvious the world operates on millions of years not thousands, that mankinds entire existance has been or will be but a blink of an eye to the rest of the universe and how nothing they do will be of any particular significance unless they try to go beyond the norm
