The greatest threat to humanity is unprecedented levels of evolutionary novelty.
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Replying to @BretWeinstein
The basic threat to humanity is the same as it’s always been. Large groups of humans banding together and behaving badly.
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Replying to @AccurateReasons @BretWeinstein
The funny thing is, when you’re inside that large group, it looks like “doing what’s necessary to survive and belong”
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Replying to @levity @BretWeinstein
When you’re inside a large group you aren’t thinking as an individual, it’s mob mentality
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Replying to @AccurateReasons @BretWeinstein
I don't mean just being literally in the same place as a lot of people. "America deciding to invade Iraq" is one example of what I would count as a large group of humans acting together. Or "Facebook designing and releasing a new feature".
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Replying to @levity @BretWeinstein
So I must be missing your point. In the first tweet I thought your point was people had agency and were exercising it to influence group behavior. Is that correct?
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Replying to @AccurateReasons @BretWeinstein
My point was that what counts as "behaving badly" vs. "doing what's needed" depends on where you are relative to the group--in positions of influence & power, at its periphery, in the outgroup, etc
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The same Toyota has a very different meaning if you're its designer, vs. a paper-pusher at the company, vs. someone who's excited to get a new car, vs. someone who can't afford a car and is ill due to air pollution, vs. a worker in an aluminum mine that supplies the factory
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