[extropy-chat] Extinctions

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Martin Striz wrote:
> 
> Hominids in the ancestral environment faced a high mortality rate.  At
> no time was it worth planning more than a few years ahead.  So when
> they came upon a bounty, they used it up.  Lottery winners spend their
> millions in an average of 4 years.

Got a reference for this?  Sounds like a useful thing to quote.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence