"Evolution has not designed us to build a stable global civilization, and yet clearly our future happiness is largely predicated on that." - free will denier

UncleWillard56 · 2024-01-29T16:47:43+00:00

You could make the argument that evolution has not prepared us to fly or go to the moon, but here we are.

iamonlyoneman · 2024-01-27T15:55:18+00:00

evolution can't see

this is for actually retarded people, isn't it?

iamonlyoneman · 2024-01-27T15:54:52+00:00

evolution has not designed us

is correct LOL

fschmidt · 2023-12-29T06:14:56+00:00

Yes, even today:

https://youtu.be/gJDcoqrh1ac

Musky · 2023-04-01T16:02:20+00:00

Praise GAIA!

iamonlyoneman · 2023-01-07T23:46:33+00:00

Wrong.

https://www.amazon.ca/Genesis-Flood-Biblical-Scientific-Implications/dp/159638395X

IkeConn · 2022-08-27T01:04:57+00:00

Wait until the Alaska and Siberian permafrost melts. Then you get billions of new old bad germs.

vtvolley · 2022-02-24T12:38:32+00:00

Part of the reason tyranny is bad is because everyone is afraid to be kind or accept help because they are afraid of tyranny.

Why take a chance giving someone a ride if they might be an illegal immigrant from Canada?

Why feed the homeless or give money to beggars if you'll just go to jail?

Why donate to the poor if the government already steals your money via taxation to fund welfare?

Why would anyone accept help if they were afraid the Good Samaritan would be arrested because of video surveillance and NSA wiretapping?

Horrux · 2021-12-17T10:41:41+00:00

It's false. The premise that pathogens were such a big problem during that era is wrong. In fact, Terrain medicine pretty much demonstrates that if you aren't poisoned and eating relatively well, pathogens are not likely to be much of a problem.

That is, until population concentration reached certain thresholds with cities, but that was MUCH later.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-12-16T19:03:55+00:00

This is a neat read.

Our bodies seem to recognize that animal foods pose a pathogen threat -- they increase inflammatory responses -- whereas plant foods are often anti-inflammatory (perhaps because they are anti-infective

There are some amazing success stories with carnivore diets for people with auto-immune and inflammatory issues.

Final argument: how to defend the brain from increased zoonotic disease? Psychotropic drugs! They cross the blood-brain barrier, are toxic to many parasites, and can therefore treat infections of the CNS.

Fuck yeah! Get high for your health.

Xihaon · 2021-02-25T14:20:40+00:00

Natural

There are two types of natural evolution. When cells just randomly mutate since that's what all cells do. And when the organism enforces its selection criteria and kills unfit cells by overworking or murdering them. The second can be seen as something close to artificial evolution since some of these processes can be initiated by the mind. Multicellular species that only have access to the first type, would turn into old ugly hags with incompatible cells pretty fast.

robots/computers to advance far faster

They can, if they want. If you force them to always desire progress in one direction, they can progress so fast it will quickly turn into a dystopia. If you allow them to have freedom, they may completely abandon the idea of progress and create a different type of dystopia. Our desire for progress comes from experience. Pain, weakness, inevitability. Will immortal machines see the world the way we see it? They seem closer to asuras than to humans.

Comatoast · 2021-02-25T14:12:42+00:00

So.. replicators ala Stargate SG-1?

Marginotions · 2021-02-25T13:40:49+00:00

Controlled evolution, ways for directing

I think you mean self-directed. So far the standard means are: Natural, Sexual, and Artificial. Closest to self-direction is Artificial in the sense that self-originated behavior can have evolutionary effects in cognates and allies. For example, native Americans cultivated maize from a dinky-seeded weed into a marvelous food crop, but it took them something like ten thousand years. In order to control genetic systems, the operational parameters need to be understood to the point of ability to manipulate them. Genetic research is moving that way, it's a coming thing.

What's more in line with really controlling evolution is within complex machines which are much better understood and totally malleable design-wise. So I expect robots/computers to advance far faster than any genetic organism. So (for want of a better word) robots will become the new dominant life-form in this solar system. Pray they respect us enough to let us survive. (And by us, I mean a better form of human than exists now, so they will have more reasons for respect.)

Xihaon · 2021-02-25T11:56:33+00:00

Controlled evolution is the most significant advantage a specie can have. I'd expect the majority of surviving life forms to have ways for directing evolution by now. Like inducing directed stress to kill inefficient cells. DNA mutations are constant and unavoidable, remember.

Xihaon · 2021-02-25T11:50:50+00:00

It is impossible to know who is clever or wise. We can only know who seems clever or wise. Those who dedicates most of their energy to seem clever, will always appear more clever than those who don't.

The capacity of a brain isn't decided by its size, we can't order the brain to dedicate all its resources to a task. A perfectly malleable intellect is a rarity, for most people IQ is decided by their collection of mental tendencies. A fool and a genius may have a similar brain.

Any artificial caste system is doomed to be hijacked by clowns.

Xihaon · 2021-02-25T11:09:56+00:00

Oxygen is a killer. The more you breathe, the faster you'll die. Calm people breathe less. When relaxation becomes extreme, breathing almost stops. Melanin is older than mitochondria, it can produce energy without breathing. Turtles rely on it to live longer.

Our mind needs stimulation to develop. Complex flexible feet may have hidden advantages.

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