Your words imply a degree of intentionality: evolution is as indifferent to all life just as the sea is indifferent to me when I step from the shore.
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Replying to @Grady_Booch @ellebarka
Fascism is the only form of state level social organization that is fully aware of evolution, and embraces group selection as normative purpose. Evolution is racist, speciecist and genocidal: not intentionally, but via functional emergence.
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Are you calling for more fascism here or am I misunderstanding? Intellectual games are fun, until they are not...
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I don’t think evolution is unfair, because fairness depends on the rules of the game, and evolution is a game in which you cannot cheat if you play it. And there are local optima that may prevent society from falling into the attractor of the global optimum.
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Replying to @Plinz @ellebarka and
Also, my ideas of good and evil must be kept in a different place than my own moral programs. I try to understand which bits need to be flipped to turn one person into another. In understanding I try to be everyone, every possible self consistent mind.
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What are the dangers of trying to understand everything and be "everyone" (a attempt at extreme info compression)? The probability of ending up just confused and a "nobody" strike me as high. Beyond that, agree that believes are just a tool - yet morality still important/useful
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At my most unconfused level, I am really nobody. I am just a story generated in a mind. That most basic identification, my mind, is a thing that makes models, if something makes it do so. Morality does not exist at this level, just as atoms have no temperature.
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Ah, but what a wonderful story you embody, even if it is an exquisite illusion.
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Nicely said :) Stories matter, as they are a effective tool against nihilistic madness - which is a common side-effect of studying the big picture :)pic.twitter.com/Qnr3xi9Zv3
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I am so wary of this! Stories are the tools of body snatchers, of egregores, of the hive minds that possess most people and turn them into thralls. Are you sure that is you who is talking, or is it the hivemind to which you are the host?
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The Dalai Lama is an extremely refined tool of a very specific set of purposes. They are what motivated him to come clean on the other dimensions, but also to keep interacting with people and politics.
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