There, I fixed 2000 years of conflict in 2 tweets, but of course nobody will listen to me and they'll go back to antisemitism and bioconservatism.

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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
That conflict is unsolvable because any tiny minority that lives within an alien society *has* to be hostile to the majority society or they'd disappear through interbreeding. This happens each generation which exerts constant selective pressure for stronger animosity.
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> any tiny minority that lives within an alien society *has* to be hostile to the majority society True, there's certainly a dynamic at play there.
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But that "hostility" can take many different forms from Amish to Jews to Mormons to Scientology to primitive tribes to etc. It's just whatever ensures genetic and memetic separation.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Amish go out of their way to live apart from the wider society so aren't selected for hostility. Same for Mormons.
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Well, that apartness is a form of hostility. You can say the same about all sorts of other groups. Including white people - over time, white people will get selected for racism (the nonracist whites will stop being white). This in itself isn't a problem.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon
It is not a problem to want to preserve your own utility function. The problem comes when that is done via negative sum games.
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The long term result of that type of selective pressure is people who value apartness more than the gains to positive sum games. Negative sum games are great at keeping valuable social distance.
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