[ExI] AI and Eliezer

[Keith Henson]

I don't understand what you are saying here even slightly

For evolution to have shaped our behavior or psychology leading to
behavior it must have affected our genetic survival in the past.
Capture bonding is easy to understand since so many of our female
ancestors were captured.

The drive for wealth is a recent thing where the genes of those who
sought wealth did well in their children

War is more complicated but when the choice was between war and
starving, genes for war did about 40% better.

With these as examples, can you similarly explain the attraction to
death stories?

Keith

Keith

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 4:48 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] AI and Eliezer
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> 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.
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> You might be right, but it really needs a survey.
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> > 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.
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> The question is why?  What is it in human evolutionary history that attracts us to such stories?
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> Arel makes a  case that it was really important to know if a bear was in the berry patch.
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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.
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