[ExI] From Arms Race to Joint Venture

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 3:58 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> >…Recent books by Damasio and Sapolsky show conclusively that without
> emotions, people just cannot make decisions that make much sense…
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> >…Intelligence must now include emotions - it's not all rationality and
> never was.  Historically,of course, emotional decisions were regarded as
> greatly flawed and to be avoided, and now we find out that we simply cannot
> avoid them.  They are absolutely necessary….bill w
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> My intuition tells me this argument is correct, even though we know that
> emotions can lead to both good and bad decisions.
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> The best approach is to always strive to have positive emotions, defined
> as the kind of emotions guiding decisions that result in helping oneself
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> The decisions, when they could finally make them (with which they had
> great difficulty) made by the people who had the brain damage that resulted
> in severing the connections were terrible.  So much for rationality only.
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Where did we ever learn to make good decisions?  In how to deal with the
world, we had home ec.  Now we have more algebra.  Poor decision.  A friend
sold shares for something or other, and the biggest selling point was just
showing the prospect a chart where compound interest was shown - how fast
it built up, etc.  They sold tons.  Were you taught about interest in high
school?  College? Anywhere?

bill w

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