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A repairer wants your stuff to break down,
A doctor wants you to get ill,
A lawyer wants you to get in conflicts,
A farmer wants you to be hungry,
But there is only a teacher who wants you to learn.
Of course you see what is wrong with the above "argument / meme / good-thought". But the first time I came across this meme, I did not.
Until a month or two ago when this meme appeared in my head again and within seconds I discarded it away as fallacious reasoning. What was the difference this time? That I was now aware of the Conspiracy. And this meme happened to come up on one evening when I was thinking about fallacies and trying to practice my skills of methods of rationality.
If you are a teacher, and you read the meme, it will assign to you the Good [...]
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By LessWrongA repairer wants your stuff to break down,
A doctor wants you to get ill,
A lawyer wants you to get in conflicts,
A farmer wants you to be hungry,
But there is only a teacher who wants you to learn.
Of course you see what is wrong with the above "argument / meme / good-thought". But the first time I came across this meme, I did not.
Until a month or two ago when this meme appeared in my head again and within seconds I discarded it away as fallacious reasoning. What was the difference this time? That I was now aware of the Conspiracy. And this meme happened to come up on one evening when I was thinking about fallacies and trying to practice my skills of methods of rationality.
If you are a teacher, and you read the meme, it will assign to you the Good [...]
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First published:
Source:
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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