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Writer, software person, armchair anthropologist, dilettante. All genders, all political opinions welcome. Book: https://amzn.com/0190495995/ 

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    1. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 25 Jul 2016
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      What's the most interesting specific question you don't have an answer to? (note: meaning of life, "what are capybaras" not specific enough)

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    2. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 26 Jul 2016
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      Why are humans so obsessed with stories/narratives?

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    3. regret maximizer‏ @teleonomist 26 Jul 2016
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      I feel like this has some convincing answers already; what do you think it would take to make a good answer?

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    4. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 26 Jul 2016
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      1. I fear I may have failed the "specific" criterion here. 2. The problem is MY lack of knowledge, not the world's

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    5. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 26 Jul 2016
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      2... *I* am puzzled by people's fetish for stories, for reasons I don't fully understand and can't articulate.

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    6. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 26 Jul 2016
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      3. Sarah's Theory of Narrative Selection comes close to scratching my itch. Also some posts by Robin Hanson

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    7. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 26 Jul 2016
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      Still I remain mostly befuddled (in the way I was once befuddled by religion, but have since mostly cleared up).

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    8. regret maximizer‏ @teleonomist 26 Jul 2016
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      ah. I'm mostly satisfied with "narrative gets lots of brain space because it's an efficient representation >

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    9. regret maximizer‏ @teleonomist 26 Jul 2016
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      > of an important domain (social causality), analogous to object recognition+tracking with material causality)

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    10. regret maximizer‏ @teleonomist 26 Jul 2016
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      >" but that leaves a lot of interesting mechanics out and is one of the more boring interpretations of "why

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      Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 26 Jul 2016
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      No doubt the straightforward functional account explains a lot of why we care about stories, but I can't help...

      6:09 PM - 26 Jul 2016
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        1. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 26 Jul 2016
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          feeling there are weird social mechanisms at play as well, without which stories wouldn't be the same cultural...

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        2. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 26 Jul 2016
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          force. This OB posts hints in a direction that feel promising to me: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/03/socializers-clump.html …

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