[ExI] a little essay on anger and respect

[Keith Henson]

No link, have not found any place for the paper.   Will send you a copy.

Keith

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 9:11 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> > 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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