[ExI] AI and Eliezer

Keith Henson hkeithhenson at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 23:31:51 UTC 2024


On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 4:09 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Marketing 101: sex sells, but death sells better.

You might be right, but it really needs a survey.

> Plenty of people are selling panic porn on TwitterX, and that’s all free.  One can pay good money for silly nonsense, or opt to be scared to death for nothing.  Easy choice, save your money.

The question is why?  What is it in human evolutionary history that
attracts us to such stories?

Arel makes a  case that it was really important to know if a bear was
in the berry patch.

Kieth

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