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Producing grass and plant based meat in a biologically and environmentally sustainable system

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@perigean @anilkseth @heather_berlin Hey @grok who is the author referred to as Athens in the above list

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@AlextheYounga @cremieuxrecueil Guessing this is holding longevity as constant to current average lifespan?

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“cultural phenomena such as religious traditions, legal systems, or market economies may appear as autonomous forces acting on individuals. But in reality, they are the ecological residue of strategic behaviors shaped by individual adaptive goals in specific historical environments. Culture is not a transmitted substance; it is the structured context that emerges from repeated and overlapping individual actions.”
Brilliant!

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@DegenRolf Interesting

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The difference in consciousness between animals and humans is one of degrees. Every different species will have a different conscious experience due to having to solve different problems in its ecological niche. Human consciousness solves a different set of problems than any other species.

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@SteveStuWill Interesting I wonder what the females preferences are?

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If this is the case then you need a good explanation for why it is that genes determine behaviour in all other species but not humans.

The idea that the mind is a blank slate has been falsified years ago.

We are a product of genetic evolution and as such will demonstrate some of the behaviour that has been selected as adaptive for an organism to survive and replicate.

As someone who works in the mental health area I find a combination of Popperian probem solving and evolutionary psychology the best combination for helping people.

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Genes create knowledge of how to exploit resources. More effective genes have more access to capital (resources).
Genes create memes. Memes also create knowledge of exploitable resources but are transmissible between organisms resulting in greater access to capital through cooperation

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@tomhyde_ Agree, all of biology is capitalistic. Every organism inhabits a niche in the environment from which it exploits resources in order to replicate. All of biology is in an economy regulated by access to resources.

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@hanno_sauer Groups of people will moralise about anything to signal their superiority and group affiliation. However we have only ever discovered a small number of morals that are universal across all cultures and these morals have not been adopted by all cultures.

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@robinhanson Was it in “Elephant in the Brain” that I read a phrase that said something like “people prefer big words and complicated writing over simple pragmatic writing because it makes them feel intelligent.”

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@PerBylund Thanks

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@robinhanson “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst than be in a fool’s paradise.”Dostoevsky

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@DBCrypt0 In other words, there’s always a way to make something better we just haven’t solved those problems yet.

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@robinhanson We’re mostly mimetic apes more interested in coalition building. The scientific enlightenment is the catalyst for a huge rise in knowledge creation through rewarding autonomy over conformity to a status hierarchy.

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@PerBylund Yuval thinks the Soviets couldn’t watch everyone, they didn’t have to everyone was watching everyone.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

If your accusation is that I place free speech as the right that protects all others? Guilty as charged.

You do not have equity if some are silenced. You do not have dignity if you can't be your authentic self, by force of law. and freedom of opinion threatens no one's safety.

Your entire theme seems to be that I am not being sufficiently “nuanced,” and you would like me to reach other conclusions more amenable to your own, under the assumption that yours are, in fact, nuanced. But so often the free speech critical mindset somehow misses that what they're arguing for is that power should have more power over thought and speech in a way that will somehow work out to the betterment of the powerless. This is foolish and simplistic, the opposite of nuanced.

Your request that I re-evaluate the mass arrests that are currently happening in the UK, because in your opinion that isn't authoritarianism causes me to question if you understand what authoritarianism is.

[Paul Raymond-Robichaud @PaulRRobichaud]

Charlie Kirk wasn't killed because of his thoughts, but because of his killer's thoughts. To blame the victim is to share the morality of the murderer.

Civility with those we disagree with is the non-negotiable bedrock of civilization.

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@robinhanson My understanding is that most farmers in this era were either serfs or slaves