[ExI] Self improvement

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 09:56:42AM -0700, Keith Henson wrote:
>
>> > Please define "friendly" in formal terms, including context.
>>
>> In *some* circumstances humans are friendly (cooperative) toward other humans.
>
> Hence the Holocene extinction. Very friendly, that.

Are you saying humans went extinct in the Holocene?  Please expand.

>> There are non-zero sum game reasons rooted in evolution as to why
>> humans (conditionally) act this way.
>>
>> The switch between alternative human behaviors has also been under
>> evolutionary selection for a long time.
>>
>> I have been discussion this for years on this list and other places.
>>
>> The works of Azar Gat and Steven Leblanc are critical to understanding
>> this subject.
>
> There is nothing to understand. You must be able to define
> friendliness in formal form first in order to start building
> development constraints on trajectory to assert conservation
> or minimax according to the metric.

You might be right.  On the other hand, I find the way you have put it
to be obscure and faintly hostile.

Keith