What we needed in the ancestral environment is exactly the same as what we need now
Already, there are a lot of substances I ingest that cause varying effects—increased productivity, increased creativity, increased fun, decreased pain—that each has its own tradeoffs. Even if it exists, I think the ‘plateau’ doesn’t account for everything I care about, and there is obvious room for improvement.
And it would be really weird if the plateau didn’t have some little peaks and valleys on it.
That explanation seems to require:
“everything that we need” is optimal
What we needed in the ancestral environment is exactly the same as what we need now
Already, there are a lot of substances I ingest that cause varying effects—increased productivity, increased creativity, increased fun, decreased pain—that each has its own tradeoffs. Even if it exists, I think the ‘plateau’ doesn’t account for everything I care about, and there is obvious room for improvement.
And it would be really weird if the plateau didn’t have some little peaks and valleys on it.