{"id":3453,"date":"2016-11-27T23:46:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T06:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2017-05-11T22:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T05:20:21","slug":"now-i-know-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/27\/now-i-know-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I Know the Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161115_165106.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"20161115_165106.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hoisted from Facebook \u2026 what\u2019s the biggest problem with the world today?<\/p>\n<p>First I studied logic, and found out many people don\u2019t know how to construct an argument, and I thought that was the biggest problem.<\/p>\n<p>Then I studied emotion, and found out many people judge arguments to be correct if they make them feel good, and I thought that was the biggest problem.<\/p>\n<p>Then I studied consciousness, and found out many people don\u2019t argue at all, they post-hoc justify preconscious decisions, and then I thought <i>that<\/i> was the biggest problem.<\/p>\n<p>Then I studied politics, and I realized the biggest problem was my political opponents, because they don\u2019t agree with me!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Me banging on a perfectly good piece of steel until it becomes useless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoisted from Facebook \u2026 what\u2019s the biggest problem with the world today? First I studied logic, and found out many people don\u2019t know how to construct an argument, and I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[180,71,181],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-little-pearls-of-something-or-other","tag-exploration-of-intelligence","tag-what-do-you-know-from-funny","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}