[ExI] AGI development and human extinction risk

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 1:34 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
 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.

I remember that study.  The "unfair" was, IIRC, set up by the experimenters.
>
> The last thing, about "a tendency to avoid this punishment by refraining from the unfair behaviour..." is just speculation on my part.

Logical though.  It does not interact much with my assertion that
there is no genetic constraint on wealth accumulation.  I.e., we are
likely selected to accumulate wealth, per Gregory Clark, but there is
no selection pressure to limit wealth (besides mortality).

Keith
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