[ExI] AGI development and human extinction risk

[BillK]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 at 20:34, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I used to be an avid reader and collector of the 'New Scientist' magazine,
> for many years, but in the last few years, I came to realise that they are
> no better than any other 'popular science' rag, mainly as a result of their
> increasing willingness to run stories on pseudoscience like cold fusion and
> reactionless drives. I've slowly been getting rid of them for a while now
> (and freeing up quite a bit of room), reading them as I go, naturally.
> Anyway, it's in that magazine that I read not long ago about this
> phenomenon of various primates showing this 'fairness' trait, to the extent
> that monkeys would reject a reward if it was less desirable than the reward
> another monkey was getting, as well as other behaviour showing displeasure
> at various 'unfair' situations. Unfortunately that issue was binned a
> little while ago, so I can't quote a reference.
>
> The last thing, about "a tendency to avoid this punishment by refraining
> from the unfair behaviour..." is just speculation on my part.
> --
> Ben
> ______________________________________________



Wikipedia knows about it.  185 references!
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequity_aversion_in_animals>
BillK
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