In the long run, the most successful ideologies are going to be those that are best aligned with evolution. Unfortunately, evolution tends to be very unpleasant for its participants. At some point, we may have to choose between favoring ethics or life.
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As intelligent human beings we are not slaves to our genes though; the human brain can probably adopt arbitrary value systems, making your life or the life of anyone else be less important than an idea or meme.
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I suspect that most people have no agency over which values or gods they adopt. We are not the first intelligent hominid, but perhaps the first programmable one.
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It is not just about own children though; even when helping strangers to survive you help a lot of the same genes you carry to surive, and with members of your ethnic group you share more genes, and with members of your family even more.
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Interestingly, we might be the first primate species to identify with an abstract superorganism (traditionally called God) and even sacrifice our children to it. This maximizes fitness under multilevel selection.
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In evolution theory life mainly exists for the purpose of carrying genes through time. The value of life from the viewpoint of the gene equals to how many good copies of the gene life helps to preserve for how long. Natural selection favors genes making such a value system emerge
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The purpose of life is the exploitation of negentropy gradients through controlled reactions. AI can in principle make cellular DNA based life obsolete, if it turns out to outcompete it at that game...
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Whether you really value your fundamental integrity higher than your life is hard to determine unless it is put to the test; I feel the same, that there are situations I would act without considering the danger to my life, and there are limits in what I'd do to preserve my life.
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The value of an individual in such a system is dynamic, depending on age and environment. The tendency of parents to value the future of their children higher than their own remaining life is an example for this.
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I just think it may be still aligned with evolution when social values like your integrity score higher than your life. Your society and social status depend on them, and so does the future of your family for generations, so even here you maybe serving your genes well :-)
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