[brightlancer]

> Why do we need to keep changing who we are?

> Why can't we just be who we are and people learn to be more accepting of how others are?

Which is more reasonable and realistic: the 20% Weirdos learn how to behave to fit in with the 80% Normies, or the 80% Normies learn how to handle ("accept") the 20% Weirdos?

In most systems, the minority adapts to the majority; this is especially true when the majority is fairly uniform and the minority is not, i.e. the minority has to learn one way to adapt to the majority while the majority would have to learn multiple ways to "accept" the minority.

[SirMaster]

How does that seem to be going with for example transgenderism or various sexualities?

It just seems like a double standard and that there are a lot of problems with this line of thought to me. I have trouble understanding it.

[brandall10]

Keep in mind I did say the self help industry - this isn’t a clinically mandated thing, it’s something people seek out themselves. There is an innate desire to improve.

Think about something really benign that almost everyone can agree on, like Toastmasters. Perhaps in a few years w/ a VR headset you can improve public speaking in front of a virtual crowd if you’re so shy that doing it in front of a large group of strangers is just too terrifying.

[SirMaster]

If you keep it to things that basic yeah that makes sense.

My mind kept going over the question of how does the AI truly determine what the majority consensus is and is that really good or fair to make everyone conform to.

Like where do you draw the lines is what kept going around in my head.