100% agree people are as moral as technology makes it easy to be People have slavery without qualms for tens of thousands of years and then "somehow" had a moral epiphany ... right around the time steam engines became useful. Curious coincidence !https://twitter.com/EdLatimore/status/1198966424032743425 …
I think that human NATURE doesn't change, but the EXPRESSION of that nature changes. We agree, I think, on two human drives: laziness (labor saving machines / slaves scratch the itch) and power lust ( small tribes warring vs electoral politics). yes ? or do we disagree ?
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I think the boundary between "human nature" and "customs of the time and place" is so fuzzy that it is undisentanglable. Is laziness a psychological need or is it just the N-player prisoner's dilemma? Is power lust the inner killer monkey or the Dark Forest?
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> so fuzzy that it is undisentanglable.
will ponder this
> Is laziness a psychological need
I'd argue that it's the result of evolution in a resource-constrained universe. Lazy entities survive and maybe reproduce ; Un-lazy entities fritter away calories and starve. - Show replies
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