<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 4:20 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">There doesn't seem to be a point in explaining again how these</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">psychological traits were selected in the stone age.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Keith</span><br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">You say that you refer to groups but then you talk about traits and do not say what traits you are talking about.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right before the bit you quoted, Keith said, "
What I am talking about is that a population (tribe to nation) where a substantial fraction of the group sees a bleak future will (as a group) head down the path to war or related social disruptions."</div><div><br></div><div>Thus, it is obvious that the traits Keith was talking about is the trait of "head(ing) down the path to war or related social disruptions" when "a substantial fraction of the group sees a bleak future".</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Traits of humans as a species, or traits of the stressed out ones?</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Neither all humans at once nor just individuals, but groups.</div></div></div>