[ExI] AI and Eliezer

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] AI and Eliezer

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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Keith we know why.  Hell you were the man who taught us to understand the phenomenon much better.  Evolutionary psychology explains why death sells better and why we can't just switch it off, even after we know how it came about and that it is generally harmful to our hopes of punching thru the Great Filter.  It isn't that we don't understand evolutionary psychology.  We understand it, and we understand its grim predictions.

spike