https://appendicesandomissions.substack.com/p/sex-and-moral-sight I can't exactly get worked up about the subtleties here; yes, the erotic imagination sometimes flattens the person it's supposedly about. But so does every way of relating to a person other than deep interpersonal communion. You can transact with them, you can ignore them, you can hate them or idealize them, and in no case are you really seeing the "whole person."
why doesn't science focus on building elite teams that work together over the long term?
Maybe it's downstream from science being intertwined with education, and that in education cooperation is considered cheating? Also, maybe it's about power: the elite teams would gain too much power relative to the organization that created them, so the organizations don't do that for political reasons?
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