always smarter than their prey. Plants have no brains at all, while animals who eat them are much smarter.
@greenrd EA is focused on maximizing utility, which generally means minimizing suffering. So they notice suffering in Africa
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@greenrd and decide that they can save the lives of x people by spending some amount, and they try to maximize x. -
@greenrd The problem with this is that it's contributing to the massive population growth of Africa. See http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-worlds-most-important-graph/ … -
@greenrd What's going to be the long-term result? Mass migration out of Africa and/or massive die-offs when aid is removed. The result will -
@greenrd be that Europeans (including Americans) will get overwhelmed by low IQ, more violent, lower trust people (EA is willfully blind to -
@greenrd HBD), and civilization will collapse. I like the high standards of living and low crime rates of American civilization. Also, EA -
@greenrd does not account for the fact that everything we love is a product of competitive pressures. (See predators in the discussion -
@greenrd above, and see@outsideness on moloch). Finally, EA doesn't understand human relations as prisoner's dilemmas. -
@greenrd See my pinned tweet for a little more in relation to that.
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