"i am going to be rich and famous someday" "i am better than other people because i was born special" "i could have succeeded, but others sabotaged me" "the system is persecuting me to keep me from telling people the truth" "i am important because God loves me"
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where one misses the boat is if one proceeds from the idea that it's one's actual social status that matters rather than the output of a black box that vaguely wants to evaluate social status but really just knows what it gets fed
Yeah, it's really important to recognize that the same phenomena exist on and are explainable in dramatically different ways on different layers. Evolutionary psychology trips up a lot of people — maybe most — this way
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What we do is in some sense "because" we're a self-replicating biological organism resulting from many gens of reproductive success. But that does not really help us figure out how to be happy and playful and nice to each other, the layers from which reproductive success emerges
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(This does fit neatly into the above — think about the traits your ideal mentor would have, even as they're mentoring you *in some sense, on some other layer* to climb a social hierarchy)
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Is the claim here that validation from other human beings isn’t intrinsically meaningful but is simply an input into a system that evolved a dysphoric response to a lack of this stimulus?
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It's more like... I dunno, I think it can be helpful to remember that on an everyday basis, it doesn't really matter whether a god or an evolutionary process created you. If knowing the truth helps you figure out how to be a happy part of a communal positive feedback loop, cool
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