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> The human mind is simply not evolutionary adapted for what's coming up. Maybe we're in fact evolutionarily adapted to not being evolutionarily adapted. We h
by eqvinox 3y ago
> The human mind is simply not evolutionary adapted for what's coming up.
Maybe we're in fact evolutionarily adapted to not being evolutionarily adapted. We have successfully dealt with a whole sequence of hard societal pivots by now…
- ceejayoz 3y agoThat's literally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias.
- nerdbert 3y agoAll the humans who couldn't deal with tiktok are dead?
- lmm 3y agoNo, but they're not going to be able to reproduce.
- eqvinox 3y agoThat's how evolution works (?)
- ceejayoz 3y agoYes, but as with stocks, past performance is no guarantee of future results. The fact that humanity as a species has survived past social shocks does not mean it's a certain thing we'll survive future ones. Our ancestors had much longer to adjust their societies for new technology than we're getting these days.
- fidelramos 3y agoWhen talking about survival I would rather apply the Lindy Effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect