[ExI] [Extropolis] trump

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:18 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
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> >>... Keith I fully embrace the notion that EP has genetically programmed me to write comments such as the paragraph above.  Cool!  spike
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> >...Oh?  What evolved psychological trait motivates you to post?
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> My posts elicit responses which I find intriguing.  It's why I have been hanging around here for the past nearly 3 decades.  It is interesting here.  I have no other mailing lists where the topic of EP is discussed or even known.

That does not answer the question I asked,  The underlying motivation
for posting is the same as a wide range of things humans do, we do it
for status.  There is a good reason in evolutionary terms for us to
seek status.  Our ancestors (particularly our male ancestors) who
obtained high status got more nooky.  Thus selection for seeking
status.  Discussing this as a human motivation is strongly repressed.

I might add that posting to the Extropian list (at least in the past)
did result in high status (if not more nooky).  I ran into a paper by
Maxwell Tabarrok where he traced the world-shaking influence of ideas
originating on this list.

https://maximumprogress.substack.com/p/grading-extropian-predictions

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