Poll: if you were marooned on a desert island with no hope of rescue, would you rather have:
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A random human companion is double the drain on the food/water resources. You can chat with Wilson.
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Hmm...
Some flares, or (more than) double the island's capacity for boundless creative problem-solving?
Hmmmm...
How "random" are we talking? :P
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If given the choice between a “quality” anything and a “random” anything, I’m probably going with the quality thing.
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This is a pretty good illustration of the dearth of prosociality in the collective unconscious -- even I (a communist) more readily imagine having to kill and eat a "random" human companion than, say, solving civil society with one
Hmph







