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The way I see it, root problems are able to solve many current problems, many future problems, & actually solve those offshoot problems, rather than stalling.

When you solve offshoot problems you effectively stall cause the offshoots you solve are going to be replaced.

Hence I believe solving root problems is much more effective in the long term & leads to more problems being solved per unit time, & you even have the chance to stop certain types of offshoots from ever appearing again at least theoretically, although it of course takes a lot of effort to prevent the root problem itself from reappearing. At the very least, solving root problems with all humanity's effort means that humanity can solve problems at a faster rate than they appear.

The opposite is true currently. Currently humanity's problems grow faster than we solve them, which is why things feel as if they're getting more & more out of control/overwhelming.

Of course sometimes urgent important offshoot problems are worth focusing on for the very urgent moment like stopping nuclear war. But very few problems have that same level of combined urgency & importance.

Most of our biggest problems I believe would best be solved by attacking root problems.

The question is why aren't more people passionate about solving root problems. & how can we get them more interested.

Also an important aspect of solving root problems is that you don't want to go too deep into the fundamentals that they're unachievable but also not too shallow that solving them is not effective enough.

Some root problems that I came up with are:

high rate of change

maximalism / lack of simplification / lack of strong prioritization,

lack of individual level & societal level exploration/generalization/diversification,

high Inertia / slow relative adaptability,

lack of strong checks & balances

& I think lack of wisdom is an emerging phenomena that is built off of multiple fundamental root problems, but is more encompassing of humanity's problems because conscious & unconscious thinking are the main methods through which humanity decides actions for change. & because humanity is the main actor in it's environment besides the sun & nature & Earth's geological processes/orbit, all of which we know are not problematic like humans are. Hence we can conclude that humanity creates the majority of its own problems & that the lack of good decision making AKA lack of wisdom leads to most of humanity's offshoot problems.

The question is can you greatly increase humanity's wisdom.

With my personal definition of wisdom being two fold the first being that wisdom is simply a combination of good thinking & good values.

The second being that thinking & values aka wisdom exists for the purpose of understanding the current state aka point A & understanding the various achievable states point Bs & then using the understanding of how the universe works & the understanding of different options & values to decide on the best point B & then navigate the universe from point A to point B.

I believe we use this process of thinking & valuing all the time. As we navigate change, we mentally calculate our present & our desired future & then we act. I believe that this navigating process becomes fallible when our thinking &/or values are not logical. I believe values can be somewhat logical although they probably can't be completely logical. & thinking can be completely logical.

Our values I believe are represented by good & bad, attraction & repulsion. We either move toward something or away, labeling it as good or bad. & indifference is the balancing of these two forces. Our values are built from our experiences. If we experience something in a bad way we label it as bad, or as good if we experience it in a good way.

I'd say it's much harder to understand how thinking works but the good thing is that the process of thinking leads to easier agreement, whereas values are much harder to come to an agreement on even though there's probably some logic to values. Values also often lead to bias in thinking.

Basically humanity needs to master the art of thinking & values if it wants to achieve wise desirable future states cause you can't navigate if you don't know how to think & you can't navigate if you don't know what to value/prioritize.

I think humanity underestimates this thinking & valuing combination in regards to being able to achieve future wise desirable states.

Hence wisdom is lacking, hence many offshoot problems arise.

I'd love to know what you guys think about these ideas I brought up. I'm trying to get people more interested in solving these root problems. Also if you're interested in increasing humanity's wisdom just let me know. I'm building a community around that effort.

The way I see it, root problems are able to solve many current problems, many future problems, & actually solve those offshoot problems, rather than stalling.

When you solve offshoot problems you effectively stall cause the offshoots you solve are going to be replaced.

Hence I believe solving root problems is much more effective in the long term & leads to more problems being solved per unit time, & you even have the chance to stop certain types of offshoots from ever appearing again at least theoretically, although it of course takes a lot of effort to prevent the root problem itself from reappearing. At the very least, solving root problems with all humanity's effort means that humanity can solve problems at a faster rate than they appear.

The opposite is true currently. Currently humanity's problems grow faster than we solve them, which is why things feel as if they're getting more & more out of control/overwhelming.

Of course sometimes urgent important offshoot problems are worth focusing on for the very urgent moment like stopping nuclear war. But very few problems have that same level of combined urgency & importance.

Most of our biggest problems I believe would best be solved by attacking root problems.

The question is why aren't more people passionate about solving root problems. & how can we get them more interested.

Also an important aspect of solving root problems is that you don't want to go too deep into the fundamentals that they're unachievable but also not too shallow that solving them is not effective enough.

Some root problems that I came up with are:

high rate of change

maximalism / lack of simplification / lack of strong prioritization,

lack of individual level & societal level exploration/generalization/diversification,

high Inertia / slow relative adaptability,

lack of strong checks & balances

& I think lack of wisdom is an emerging phenomena that is built off of multiple fundamental root problems, but is more encompassing of humanity's problems because conscious & unconscious thinking are the main methods through which humanity decides actions for change. & because humanity is the main actor in it's environment besides the sun & nature & Earth's geological processes/orbit, all of which we know are not problematic like humans are. Hence we can conclude that humanity creates the majority of its own problems & that the lack of good decision making AKA lack of wisdom leads to most of humanity's offshoot problems.

The question is can you greatly increase humanity's wisdom.

With my personal definition of wisdom being two fold the first being that wisdom is simply a combination of good thinking & good values.

The second being that thinking & values aka wisdom exists for the purpose of understanding the current state aka point A & understanding the various achievable states point Bs & then using the understanding of how the universe works & the understanding of different options & values to decide on the best point B & then navigate the universe from point A to point B.

I believe we use this process of thinking & valuing all the time. As we navigate change, we mentally calculate our present & our desired future & then we act. I believe that this navigating process becomes fallible when our thinking &/or values are not logical. I believe values can be somewhat logical although they probably can't be completely logical. & thinking can be completely logical.

Our values I believe are represented by good & bad, attraction & repulsion. We either move toward something or away, labeling it as good or bad. & indifference is the balancing of these two forces. Our values are built from our experiences. If we experience something in a bad way we label it as bad, or as good if we experience it in a good way.

I'd say it's much harder to understand how thinking works but the good thing is that the process of thinking leads to easier agreement, whereas values are much harder to come to an agreement on even though there's probably some logic to values. Values also often lead to bias in thinking.

Basically humanity needs to master the art of thinking & values if it wants to achieve wise desirable future states cause you can't navigate if you don't know how to think & you can't navigate if you don't know what to value/prioritize.

I think humanity underestimates this thinking & valuing combination in regards to being able to achieve future wise desirable states.

Hence wisdom is lacking, hence many offshoot problems arise.

I'd love to know what you guys think about these ideas I brought up. I'm trying to get people more interested in solving these root problems. Also if you're interested in increasing humanity's wisdom just let me know. I have a discord community called Help Humanity Be Wise + More.

The way I see it root problems are able to solve many current problems, many future problems, & actually solve those offshoot problems, rather than stalling.

When you solve offshoot problems you effectively stall cause the offshoots you solve are going to be replaced.

Hence I believe solving root problems is much more effective in the long term & leads to more problems being solved per unit time, & you even have the chance to stop certain types of offshoots from ever appearing again at least theoretically, although it of course takes a lot of effort to prevent the root problem itself from reappearing. At the very least solving root problems with all humanity's effort means that humanity can solve problems at a faster rate than they appear.

The opposite is true currently. Currently humanity's problems grow faster than we solve them, which is why things feel as if they're getting more & more out of control/overwhelming.

Of course sometimes urgent important offshoot problems are worth focusing on for the very urgent moment like stopping nuclear war. But very few problems have that same level of combined urgency & importance.

Most of our biggest problems I believe would best be solved by attacking root problems.

The question is why aren't more people passionate about solving root problems. & how can we get them more interested.

Also an important aspect of solving root problems is that you don't want to go too deep into the fundamentals that they're unachievable but also not too shallow that solving them is not effective enough.

Some root problems that I came up with are:

high rate of change (humanity's rate of change is faster than it can properly control/manage. There are many examples of this increasing rate of change but the best example is probably the fact that for people to try & keep up with their rate of change they have to become more & more specialized showing one negative impact of this high rate of change. & the thing is that people might be keeping pace but that's different from properly controlling/managing the situation. Right now humanity is in a very rushed mode where the amount of mental & physical effort per action is minimized so that we can do things faster/efficiently. People are just churning things out without much stopping & thinking, & this will have big consequences.)

maximalism / lack of simplification / lack of strong prioritization, (humanity is spreading itself thin with so much general maximalism & complexity & lacks strong unified purpose/priorities. The point of minimalism is to maximize a few things really well. Maximalism wants as much as it can have but just ends up spreading itself thin in everything. I agree diversification is important. That's why you want a balance between minimalism & maximalism, but currently there isn't a good balance it's just full tilt towards maximalism)

lack of individual level & societal level exploration/generalization/diversification, (humanity is very specialized at an individual level preventing more exploration of reality to build more well rounded & diversified wisdom, & there is very little will & ability to try different strategies at a societal level)

high Inertia / slow relative adaptability, (society has so much inertia that it's slow to adapt relative to its own rate of change. The point is to adapt to change. If you become the fastest rate of change in your environment you have to be good at adapting to yourself. Humanity's huge inertia is making it slow to react to its own consequences in meaningful ways)

lack of strong checks & balances (balance is super important for complex systems, but humanity is enforcing neither a good quantity nor a good quality of checks & balances, & so society is very volatile. We see this throughout history where empires keep rising & falling in a volatile way cause there aren't good checks & balances to keep things stable. The reason why it wasn't too much of a problem is that humanity was diversified & not that impactful on its environment. Now though humanity is very impactful on its environment & so when humanity is volatile with all its crazy change so is the greater environment & also globalization has lead to much less diversification & more dependence on each other)

Anyway there are definitely more root problems but those were some I could think of along with some brief explanations for why I think they're important enough to be considered as main root problems that are worth focusing on.

Anyway, I think lack of wisdom is an emerging phenomena that is built off of multiple fundamental root problems, but is more encompassing of humanity's problems because thinking & valuing are the main methods through which humanity decides actions for change. & because humanity is the main actor in it's environment besides the sun & nature & Earth's geological processes/orbit, all of which we know are not problematic like humans are. Hence we can conclude that humanity creates the majority of its own problems & that the lack of good decision making AKA lack of wisdom leads to most of humanity's offshoot problems.

The question is can you greatly increase humanity's wisdom.

With my personal definition of wisdom being two fold the first being that wisdom is simply a combination of good thinking & good values.

The second being that thinking & values aka wisdom exists for the purpose of understanding the current state aka point A & understanding the various achievable states point Bs & then using the understanding of how the universe works & the understanding of different options & values to decide on the best point B & then navigate the universe from point A to point B.

I believe we use this process of thinking & valuing all the time. As we navigate change, we mentally calculate our present & our desired future & then we act. I believe that this navigating process becomes fallible when our thinking &/or values are not logical. I believe values can be somewhat logical although they probably can't be completely logical. & thinking can be completely logical.

Our values I believe are represented by good & bad, attraction & repulsion. We either move toward something or away, labeling it as good or bad. & indifference is the balancing of these two forces. Our values are built from our experiences. If we experience something in a bad way we label it as bad, or as good if we experience it in a good way.

I'd say it's much harder to understand how thinking works but the good thing is that the process of thinking leads to easier agreement, whereas values are much harder to come to an agreement on even though there's probably some logic to values. Values also often lead to bias in thinking.

Basically humanity needs to master the art of thinking & values if it wants to achieve wise desirable future states cause you can't navigate if you don't know how to think & you can't navigate if you don't know what to value/prioritize.

I think humanity underestimates this thinking & valuing combination aka wisdom in regards to being able to achieve future wise desirable states.

Hence wisdom is lacking, hence many offshoot problems arise.

I'd love to know what you guys think about these ideas I brought up. I'm trying to get people more interested in solving these root problems, especially wisdom. Also if you're interested in improving humanity in general just let me know. I have a discord community called Help Humanity Be Wise + More.

The way I see it root problems are able to solve many current problems, many future problems, & actually solve those offshoot problems, rather than stalling.

When you solve offshoot problems you effectively stall cause the offshoots you solve are going to be replaced.

Hence I believe solving root problems is much more effective in the long term & leads to more problems being solved per unit time, & you even have the chance to stop certain types of offshoots from ever appearing again at least theoretically, although it of course takes a lot of effort to prevent the root problem itself from reappearing. At the very least solving root problems with all humanity's effort means that humanity can solve problems at a faster rate than they appear.

The opposite is true currently. Currently humanity's problems grow faster than we solve them, which is why things feel as if they're getting more & more out of control/overwhelming.

Of course sometimes urgent important offshoot problems are worth focusing on for the very urgent moment like stopping nuclear war. But very few problems have that same level of combined urgency & importance.

Most of our biggest problems I believe would best be solved by attacking root problems.

The question is why aren't more people passionate about solving root problems. & how can we get them more interested.

Also an important aspect of solving root problems is that you don't want to go too deep into the fundamentals that they're unachievable but also not too shallow that solving them is not effective enough.

Some root problems that I came up with are:

high rate of change

maximalism / lack of simplification / lack of strong prioritization,

lack of individual level & societal level exploration/generalization/diversification,

high Inertia / slow relative adaptability,

lack of strong checks & balances

& I think lack of wisdom is an emerging phenomena that is built off of multiple fundamental root problems, but is more encompassing of humanity's problems because conscious & unconscious thinking are the main methods through which humanity decides actions for change. & because humanity is the main actor in it's environment besides the sun & nature & Earth's geological processes/orbit, all of which we know are not problematic like humans are. Hence we can conclude that humanity creates the majority of its own problems & that the lack of good decision making AKA lack of wisdom leads to most of humanity's offshoot problems.

The question is can you greatly increase humanity's wisdom.

With my personal definition of wisdom being two fold the first being that wisdom is simply a combination of good thinking & good values.

The second being that thinking & values aka wisdom exists for the purpose of understanding the current state aka point A & understanding the various achievable states point Bs & then using the understanding of how the universe works & the understanding of different options & values to decide on the best point B & then navigate the universe from point A to point B.

I believe we use this process of thinking & valuing all the time. As we navigate change, we mentally calculate our present & our desired future & then we act. I believe that this navigating process becomes fallible when our thinking &/or values are not logical. I believe values can be somewhat logical although they probably can't be completely logical. & thinking can be completely logical.

Our values I believe are represented by good & bad, attraction & repulsion. We either move toward something or away, labeling it as good or bad. & indifference is the balancing of these two forces. Our values are built from our experiences. If we experience something in a bad way we label it as bad, or as good if we experience it in a good way.

I'd say it's much harder to understand how thinking works but the good thing is that the process of thinking leads to easier agreement, whereas values are much harder to come to an agreement on even though there's probably some logic to values. Values also often lead to bias in thinking.

Basically humanity needs to master the art of thinking & values if it wants to achieve wise desirable future states cause you can't navigate if you don't know how to think & you can't navigate if you don't know what to value/prioritize.

I think humanity underestimates this thinking & valuing combination in regards to being able to achieve future wise desirable states.

Hence wisdom is lacking, hence many offshoot problems arise.

I'd love to know what you guys think about these ideas I brought up. I'm trying to get people more interested in solving these root problems. Also if you're interested in increasing humanity's wisdom just let me know. I have a discord community called Help Humanity Be Wise + More.