[extropy-chat] Extinctions

[Martin Striz]

On 6/12/06, KAZ <kazvorpal at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> There may be no group less capable of long-term planning than those
who participate the most in government lotteries. <<

You bring up a good point.  To be sure, people with discipline can
overcome instinctive desires, just as they can work to overcome other
heuristics and biases.  It's not an inviolable genetic predestination,
but it does explain a particularly pervasive human tendency.

Martin