[ExI] [Extropolis] trump

[Keith Henson]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 5:17 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023, 12:46 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> I tried for more than ten years to convey the worldview that humans
> have evolved psychological traits to the Extropians and utterly
> failed.
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> There was little debate on the topic, for we agreed with you Keith.  It had the ring of truth to it first time I heard it.
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> Eventually, I lowered my expectations.
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> Keith
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> Keith I am puzzled by this post.  I studied into evolutionary psychology after you started posting on the topic, and it revolutionized my thinking.  You became one of the most influential ExI posters of all.  Why do you lower your expectations please?
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I can't think of a time when anyone (besides me) posting on the
extropian list invoked an EP view.  People talk about social and
political matters as if there was no deeper level.

Have humans been selected to reject understanding their evolved
psychological traits?  Seems possible to me.  I have observed at a
distance as evolutionary psychology swept through reorganizing a
substantial number of university sociology and psychology departments
and was utterly rejected by others.  I.e., this rejection is systemic
far beyond this list.

On another topic,

>From close to the very start of the list there was talk on the list
about the singularity.  Regarding the AI part, we seem to be so close
that you can see it from week to week.

Almost at the same time as the AI progress became wild, we have what I
think is finding aliens or something that is dimming stars.

And then we have news that we might live much longer than expected.

Keith

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