[ExI] a little essay on anger and respect

[Gadersd]

> It's a consequence of evolution.  People have been selected for belief
> to trump reason because genes for doing so survived better.
> 
> It's the subject of that paper one person looked at.

I seemed to have overlooked it. May you provide a link to the paper?

> On Apr 26, 2023, at 1:11 AM, Keith Henson via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 1:24 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 25/04/2023 17:42, bill w wrote:
>> 
>> Belief overrides reason almost every time
>> for the vast majority of people.  spike
>> 
>> How do you know this,  Spike and Ben?
> 
> It's a consequence of evolution.  People have been selected for belief
> to trump reason because genes for doing so survived better.
> 
> It's the subject of that paper one person looked at.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> What is the basis for your belief?  Just a general cynicism about
> humans?  'People are getting dumber'- a question on Quora this morning
> for me.  My answer - how do you know this?  "Well, doesn't everyone
> know these things?"  Nope.
>> 
>> A better sentence:  many times irrational ideas override reason.  But it varies from person to person, just like anything else.  I think perhaps extremists at either end of the spectrum will fit the statement better.  Statements that apply to most of the human race are very difficult to make in a valid way.   bill w
>> 
>> 
>> No argument from me. "many times" ~= "almost every time". And yes, of course, there will always be outliers. Evolution guarantees it.
>> 
>> Ben
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