[ExI] ai is the easy road

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 10:04 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] ai is the easy road
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> >…The question is, why do humans have religions? Or maybe that is the
> wrong way around. Why do religions (considered as mental parasites) have
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> Keith you pointed out that humans are able to create larger stable groups
> than our cousins the chimps and bonobos.
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I don't think I hace ever made such a point. If I have, please show me
where because it does not sound like something I would have said.

Think of religion not so much as a mind parasite but as a technique or
> basis for stabilizing large groups of humans, enabling them to work in
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I really doubt that. Selection for whatever is behind susceptibility to
religions happened before religions became common.

This view has its consequences: we argue that diversity is our strength.
> If religion creates a common basis for society, then diversity is our
> weakness.  That view predicts the existence of multiple religions results a
> reduction in cohesiveness of a society.
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I can't say this makes any sense.

Keith

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