This Scott Alexanders’ review makes me very optimistic. I’m more and more convinced that our only superpower as a species is the ability to copy and adapt, rather than innate intelligence. We might be a lot more adaptable culturally than we give ourselves credit for.
So if culture (and probably 20 IQ points due to better health and Flynn effect) can make the difference between Boko Haram and the Culture War in US, I’m hoping a handful of extra concepts can push us beyond that. We don’t need a lot...
Scott said in another post that CBT lost its edge over the other therapy techniques because too much of it is already “in the water supply”. Is it too much to hope that we can bring confirmation bias or attribution error in the water supply as well?
So if culture (and probably 20 IQ points due to better health and Flynn effect) can make the difference between Boko Haram and the Culture War in US
I would also add institutions (arguably part of culture), and maybe laziness (if Boko Haram members spent their whole days arguing on Twitter, they wouldn’t have time left for killing people).
Maybe the actual way to world peace is to give everyone an online connection, and channel their destructive instincts into upvoting and downvoting.
This Scott Alexanders’ review makes me very optimistic. I’m more and more convinced that our only superpower as a species is the ability to copy and adapt, rather than innate intelligence. We might be a lot more adaptable culturally than we give ourselves credit for.
So if culture (and probably 20 IQ points due to better health and Flynn effect) can make the difference between Boko Haram and the Culture War in US, I’m hoping a handful of extra concepts can push us beyond that. We don’t need a lot...
Scott said in another post that CBT lost its edge over the other therapy techniques because too much of it is already “in the water supply”. Is it too much to hope that we can bring confirmation bias or attribution error in the water supply as well?
I would also add institutions (arguably part of culture), and maybe laziness (if Boko Haram members spent their whole days arguing on Twitter, they wouldn’t have time left for killing people).
Maybe the actual way to world peace is to give everyone an online connection, and channel their destructive instincts into upvoting and downvoting.
That was extremely interesting and relevant, thanks!