[ExI] [Extropolis] trump

[spike at rainier66.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
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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?


>  ...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...

Do clarify please Keith.  The posts I see appear to assume an EP view.  I know of no good examples where that paradigm was rejected.

>...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... Keith

Universities, ja.  I have no confidence in them.  I am not familiar enough with current sociology and psychology departments to comment, however those departments are not where the real action is.  If one wants to carry out of a university anything worth the enormous opportunity cost and monetary expense of a college education, one is advised to steer away from those areas and get where deeper truth is revealed from equations and algorithms.  The end goal is to make cool stuff which people want to buy.

Keith I fully embrace the notion that EP has genetically programmed me to write comments such as the paragraph above.  Cool!

spike