So this 'human extinction via VR/fake fitness signals/amusing ourselves to death' thesis - isn't this obviously wrong? Media consumption & fertility are heritable as anything else & respond to selection. It'd require absurdly indefinitely escalating selection to drive extinction.
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Replying to @gwern
I take it more as extinction of the middle class, and thereafter society as we know it. Depends on how quickly the gap is filled?
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Replying to @TeubenRoald
But there's tons of social mobility from above and below, and fertility in resistant classes would rise due to lack of competition. Any extinction would basically need to happen extremely rapidly to prevent all the replacement dynamics.
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Replying to @gwern
I agree; against infection, population heterogeneity is a boon.
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