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Do you honestly believe that an average person is ever going to do any of that, in the way you just described, without being raised from birth in a world precisely tailored to make it easier for them to do so?
... Defining a few terms:
"ever": within the projected remaining longevity of anyone currently alive.
"average person": A sufficient portion of people who are no more than 1 standard deviation away from the mode of any given manner of behavior as to be representative of the whole.
-- that being said: no, no I do not.
A different set of definitions:
"ever": throughout the remainder of history
"an average person": at least one person who is validly described as 'average' at the time it happens
-- Yes, yes I do.
Even explaining that took more nuance than you'd like, I suspect. Please note how radically different the two statements are, even though they both conform very closely to what you said. THIS is why nuance is sometimes indispensable.
Within our lifetimes, conversational speech will not resemble a legal document. Nor is the average person persuaded by legalese. In fact, they're turned off by it. Nuance is sometimes indispensable, but taking such a macroscopic view of nuance that "average" people from the year 2345 are included is stretching credulity, to say the least (not that I haven't been guilty of the same crime).
Not all conversations, no -- but if an average person is unprepared for legalese then he'd better always have a lawyer with him when he signs anything, ever. This has an unhappy context for our conversatoin: is there a rationality-equivalent of a lawyer?
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The Order of Silent Confessors, maybe?
Good question. Perhaps there's a market for that.
It is by my will alone that I set my mind in motion.
It is a really good idea, though. Has it been brought up before on LW? Like the boot camp, but longer, and more in depth, and accredited somehow?