[ExI] AI and Eliezer

[Keith Henson]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 2:23 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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> Disasterbation plays a part too: convincing oneself that there is this one absolutely justified course of action that can never be questioned as the best thing one could have done, relieves the burden of having to think and assess one's choices, which a number of people are averse to.

Humans have been selected for psychological traits leading them to
wars.  In the stone age it was memes like the tribe next door eats
monkeys and we should kill them for that, when the actual logic of the
genes is that we have a resource shortage and to live we need to kill
someone and take their resources.  But the evolved trait is not
specific so you can get just about any crazy meme making the rounds.

> It is the same itch that religion scratches, in a time when many are finding that religion does not work well enough (see the increasing publicity of moral failings of large, organized religions, as well as the increasing number of things that lay people see a need to understand but that the most often encountered religions do not adequately explain).  This creates an incentive to think along lines that justify that sort of conclusion, and to ignore evidence to the contrary.

Religions are a side effect of the psychological traits for wars.

Keith

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