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Originally posted on substack.com in August 2023. Evidence for global cultural diffusion post at Vectors of Mind spurs the raising of the question in the comments by Little Kenny, “[…] I am trying to imagine what might have been some of the more fundamental worldview changes and social practices triggered by recursion. Maybe they're now so embedded into our behavioral norms and unrecognized priors that we…

A reaction to: John Collier and Michael Stingl. “Evolutionary Moral Realism.” Biological Theory (Forthcoming 2013). Accessed September 3, 2024. [via academia.edu] I’ve already looked at a more recent paper by these authors (so this will be a bit cursory. I’ll ignore the LLMs this time): REACTION Collier, John and Stingl, Michael. “Evolutionary Naturalism and the Objectivity of Morality.” Biology and…

Part 1: The lawyer and the doctor When I was a younger adult I was very briefly on a team sports club committee. In a mixed gender competition of a sport with a low profile in Australia. The committee were all of a similar age and contained some early career tradcore professionals. Being mixed it was low contact gameplay. Officially…

A list of reactions to other evolution~morality papers and chapters and stuff can be found at Reactions to papers on evolution~morality. Arvan, Marcus. “Morality as an Evolutionary Exaptation.” 2021. via academia.edu. Web. This is a preprint of a chapter published in Johan De Smedt & Helen De Cruz & (eds.), Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics, Springer – Synthese Library. The final…

Over a decade after it came out I finally have had a gander at Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind (2011). It’s a fine introduction. I tend to agree with what bits I read about empire. It tells a good story. What’s wrong with that…? Apparently all that co-operation we do, Harari says (from that wikipedia link) (and that…

if we subsume meaning, morality, philosophy, culture, religion, art, polity into one category what would it be called? I keep dipping into Large Language models (LLMs) and being annoyed when not disappointed. Better than neural networks? Are data-painters better than balsa-wood ships in a bottle? LLMs just do not operate where I am operating. If I was schizoid I would…