Worth reading despite some cringe.https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1050909875495145472 …
-
-
I'm of the opinion that the essential characteristics of humanity are in fact the products of an easing of competitiveness. Art, literature, etc, I see as a form of dead-weight loss that humans can afford due to their obvious monopoly on a certain level of intelligence/fitness.
-
Of course it's more complicated than this. I see human values the same way I see the male-peacock's feathers. They exist as the product of competition at one level due to an absence of competition at some higher level. They are the positive externalities of sexual competition, 1/
-
but can only exist in the absence of maximal competition at the level of the species/society/techno-human-industrio-capital-system.
-
So you object to any future with competition, no matter what the form. Good luck with that.
-
That's not what I said at all. The implication of my argument is that I would like to maintain the exact level of competitiveness (non-maximal) in the environment which gave birth to human values. You're probably my favorite academic, Hanson, please be charitable.
-
Save the dreamtime: "So I agree with Robin Hanson: This is the dream time. This is a rare confluence of circumstances where the we are unusually safe from multipolar traps, and as such weird things like art and science and philosophy and love can flourish." -
@slatestarcodex
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.