[MagnusWootton]

Everything we see, might be a lie, on the internet.

What if we have advanced technology already, but its been withheld from us.

The most obvious case of this,  is the magnet motor,  alot of people seem to not believe in them.  (But alot of people do.)
So if your one of the people that dont believe, you are eating the lies, and u are living in the illusion of their grandeur.   (of magnet motors, but they do beat the pants off solar panels.)

But what if it doesnt stop there.

What if we have advanced medical care already, and its not known to us that it even exists,  and if your a little singulatarian and ur to go produce this for yourself, it may come as a shock when you find out its already there,  and all the big ego win gets tossed down the drain.

You thought you were so good...  you thought you were the only one,  but then... welcome to the [[[big box]]], with a big bow on top, now everything you made is just relegated to another form of averageness, and theres nothing really exciting or interesting about it at all.

Just think tho, it rings true to daily day life, the "showoff at the pub" alot of the time, his trick doesnt work, anyway, whatever its about,  if theyve heard about it,  doesnt really come as a suprise to anyone anymore.

But because of all this secrecy, the singularity is always 50 years from now even 50 years from now,  even tho it could have possibly been 300 years AGO.

So theres a great possibility of ppl being impressed by it,  by only you hustling them, like taking advantage of year 1's when ur in year 3.   No challenge, and utter scum of you to take such an easy way out.

[Don Patrick]

The thing about secrets is humans are terrible at keeping them.

[MagnusWootton]

i think the problem is more the telepathic aliens stealing it from people from self didacting into the mirror...