December 6th, 2023
- David Deutsch critiques
- Jess's thoughts on essay
- Jess >
- he's using the world "brain" where he means "mind"
- and literally he could just find/replace
- so he sounds unnecessarily reductionistic
- (M: which maybe he is, but yeah)
- Jess > various memes he's saying have been extinguished, but even if they're delegitimized they're still happening in certain forms
- subjugation of women, torture of children (very autistic ones sometimes face torturous conditions)
- Jess > I like the bit about science and religious conflict in a person
- Jess > surviving memes that make you more successful given a ruleset, and the memes for implementing the ruleset
- what are the incentives on the game designers?
- (vibes with David Sloan Wilson's new invisible hand article)
- my thoughts
- you can have a meme that is locally rational for an individual for winning the game they're in but leads to the perpetuation of dynamics that suck for everyone, for instance
- so in that sense...
- J > "critical faculties suppressed by religion"
- but all major religions also have critical schools
- in relation to the masses though yeah. the majority were not allowed