[ExI] ai is the easy road

[John Clark]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 8:09 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

*> If you want to argue I am wrong in this analysis, please do. I can make
> logic or math errors like anyone else.*


*I don't think your idea is wrong, I just don't think it's of much use in
explaining or predicting current events. *


> *>> Cooperation is just as an important a strategy as aggression,*
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> *> In normal times, yes. But it depends on the conditions. *
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*I agree.  *

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*>> and humans are FAR more peaceful than our nearest genetic cousins,
>> chimpanzees;*
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> *> Don't forget we are equally close to Bonobos.*
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*Good point. We are equally close to Bonobos and they are much more
peaceful than chimpanzees, and yet the genes for both never left the
tropics and today they are nearly extinct in the wild, but human genes are
now in the Arctic and Antarctic and everywhere in between; we must have
something that they lack. Perhaps Chimpanzees and Bonobos found a ratio
between aggression and cooperation that produced a local maximum, but
humans found a global maximum that worked well under a large number of very
different environmental conditions.*

*It's also interesting that genetic evidence proves that Chimpanzees and
Bonobos are both more closely related to humans than they are to Gorillas.
So a small change to the genome can make a big change to the phenotype, and
to behavior. *

*John K Clark*



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