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>Put another way, we have a tendency to like ppl, but once we calibrate, we start penalizing ppl. But without context, we round up. Put it another way: we're s
by coldtea 3y ago
>Put another way, we have a tendency to like ppl, but once we calibrate, we start penalizing ppl. But without context, we round up.
Put it another way: we're shallow, primitive, creatures.
- sctb 3y agoIf that's true then I would put even less stock into these just-so stories.
- patcon 3y agoHeh I like the sentiment, but this feels to me a little bit odd, like saying "evolution is a cold ruthless inhumane process". There is no human (the root of all things "humane") without the evolution being critiqued by the very human values it made possible :) What you're calling "primitive" (perhaps with judgement) is part of the system that perpetuates our collective socio-biological process in poorly understood ways. For all we know, liking ppl until we're at scale is highly adaptive (in an information-theoretic sense) for sociality as a whole, and not some broken primitivity :)
- coldtea 3y agoWell, evolution doesn't care anyway if there's a human - much less a humane human, it's indeed a "cold ruthless inhumane process". Evolutionarily speaking we could be replaced by cockroaches in a heartbeat if the conditions arise