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What decisions? They are just playing along. Incentives matter a lot, as you say.
by gverrilla 6y ago
What decisions? They are just playing along. Incentives matter a lot, as you say.
- api 6y agoTrue. Maybe everyone is just playing along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(film) This is why I wonder if humans are actually intelligent or just clever. Seems to me that a true intelligence would learn to command its own game theoretic / emergent context, not be dragged along by it to wherever the magic bus is going.
- gverrilla 6y agoYou think we are intelligent? We are as dumb as it gets. All kinds of misery remain throughout the world. We didn't solve any of the most important matters in human existance including: hunger, literacy, dignity, health, food quality, all kinds and grades of violence, mental disease, war, child abuse, women abuse, men abuse, justice, people without a roof, dictatorships, sanitation, pandemics... "Because the quest for profit makes men into predatory, insensitive and stupid brutes." (Raoul Vaneigem) (http://www.notbored.org/sine-mensuel.html http://www.notbored.org/sine-mensuel.html)
- api 6y agoMaybe we are just barely smart enough. There is a statistical argument to the effect that the species to do X will in all probability be the dumbest possible species capable of doing it. E.g. if we are ever visited by aliens they are likely to be the stupidest possible interstellar voyagers...