It’s not like Circling has taken over the world or anything. So the same question posed to rationality has to be posed to it, Given it hasn’t, why do you think it’s real?
Why haven’t bridges taken over the world? Why haven’t iPads? Why isn’t the world tiled with stir-fry, or double-entry accounting, or kittens?
If you’re looking for things that have taken over the world, you’d want to look to things like language, writing, agriculture, urbanization, the nation-state, capitalism, the Bible, the British Empire, and America. None of these could have been successful without a whole bunch of other stuff that is valuable, but not at all the sort of thing that tries to take over the world.
It is totally fine, and usually the correct decision, not to even try to take over the world!
Circling, like most things people come up with or make, is a specific thing suited to specific problems and interests, and is enjoying a perfectly fine amount of popularity for one among many things one might do to explore some areas of mindspace.
The point here was about adequacy analysis; if circling is as good as the OP believes, the fact that it’s not widespread among elites is surprising. You’re right that it’s fine if circling isn’t as good as the OP says, but then Unreal wants to update their beliefs about circling.
Why haven’t bridges taken over the world? Why haven’t iPads? Why isn’t the world tiled with stir-fry, or double-entry accounting, or kittens?
If you’re looking for things that have taken over the world, you’d want to look to things like language, writing, agriculture, urbanization, the nation-state, capitalism, the Bible, the British Empire, and America. None of these could have been successful without a whole bunch of other stuff that is valuable, but not at all the sort of thing that tries to take over the world.
It is totally fine, and usually the correct decision, not to even try to take over the world!
Circling, like most things people come up with or make, is a specific thing suited to specific problems and interests, and is enjoying a perfectly fine amount of popularity for one among many things one might do to explore some areas of mindspace.
The point here was about adequacy analysis; if circling is as good as the OP believes, the fact that it’s not widespread among elites is surprising. You’re right that it’s fine if circling isn’t as good as the OP says, but then Unreal wants to update their beliefs about circling.