If the costly signal hypothesis is true, it is really a self-sabotaging memeplex for those religious nuts, since the larger society should probably consider cost-benefit ratios and funding medical practitioners training in an obscure language meant to be costly[1] is probably not the way to buy the most QALYs. You don’t even have to be anti-religious, you just have to be EA to see that helping people who make themselves cheaper to help is more effective if you’re egalitarian.
I think it’s quite easy to see communities as the Mennonites or Amish als self-sabotaging memeplexes. They way they operate is quite costly. At the same time, they might argue that they have healthy birth rates and it’s mainstream society with birth rates that aren’t enough to long-term sustain the society as “self-sabotaging memeplex”.
If the costly signal hypothesis is true, it is really a self-sabotaging memeplex for those religious nuts, since the larger society should probably consider cost-benefit ratios and funding medical practitioners training in an obscure language meant to be costly[1] is probably not the way to buy the most QALYs. You don’t even have to be anti-religious, you just have to be EA to see that helping people who make themselves cheaper to help is more effective if you’re egalitarian.
So if it ever becomes cheap, like with the LLM suggestion, then it no longer works
I think it’s quite easy to see communities as the Mennonites or Amish als self-sabotaging memeplexes. They way they operate is quite costly. At the same time, they might argue that they have healthy birth rates and it’s mainstream society with birth rates that aren’t enough to long-term sustain the society as “self-sabotaging memeplex”.