Counter argument: we pay garbagemen more than we pay convenience store clerks because the work is harder and nastier and we have to incentivize them. Thus, we should also expect that we reward warriors with status more than we reward innovators, because market clearing price.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1119949952761978881 …
Right, exactly. So both culturally and genetically, we'd expect humans to optimize for investing in war (offensive or defensive). Given 10k years (100k years?) of this environment, we'd expect the human default to STILL do this. ...and it does.
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It seems to me we agree. Our culture does in fact promote war more than innovation. This isn't because being a warrior is harder, but because ancestor societies gained so much from promoting war.
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we're within 1% of agreeing, certainly ; maybe perfectly agreeing? we promote war more because the supply of warriors is elastic / responds to incentives, and in the evolutionary context we needed more than the default level
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