Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Females, Increases Mating
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Re: Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Females, Increases Mating
#2I look forward to the day a majority of people realize that our biology is, to a large extent, something to be overcome. Our "natural" biological impulses are often incredibly destructive, for both ourselves (e.g. sugar cravings) and for those around us (e.g. the impulses in this article).
Re: Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Females, Increases Mating
#3I look forward to the day a majority of people realize that our biology is, to a large extent, something to be overcome. Our "natural" biological impulses are often incredibly destructive, for both ourselves (e.g. sugar cravings) and for those around us (e.g. the impulses in this article).
I don't disagree with you, but it's profound to think our goal is to evolve to no longer be human.
Perhaps machine intelligence will be the better version of ourselves; we're just the bootstrap code.
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#4The article ends with: "It doesn’t mean it has an evolutionary basis."
If not evolution, then what? Doesn't all behavior have an evolutionary basis?
Re: Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Females, Increases Mating
#5I look forward to the day a majority of people realize that our biology is, to a large extent, something to be overcome. Our "natural" biological impulses are often incredibly destructive, for both ourselves (e.g. sugar cravings) and for those around us (e.g. the impulses in this article).
I don't disagree with you, but it's profound to think our goal is to evolve to no longer be human. Perhaps machine intelligence will be the better version of ourselves; we're just the bootstrap code.
This is actually my theory of life -- humanity will eventually create a "perfect" version of ourselves, which with then exterminate us because we are inferior, and then the AI-human race will create a perfect society and branch off to explore the universe.
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#6Makes sense. Evolution favours the strong and works to ensure survival, not happiness.
Re: Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Females, Increases Mating
#7The article ends with: "It doesn’t mean it has an evolutionary basis." If not evolution, then what? Doesn't all behavior have an evolutionary basis?
No. There is a technical term for this - can someone help me out? I can't remember it....
Re: Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Females, Increases Mating
#8I look forward to the day a majority of people realize that our biology is, to a large extent, something to be overcome. Our "natural" biological impulses are often incredibly destructive, for both ourselves (e.g. sugar cravings) and for those around us (e.g. the impulses in this article).
Most people spend a great deal of time fighting their impulses in order to behave in a proper socialized manner: go to work, be nice, clean up, call your mom, don't procrastinate, etc.
Re: Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Females, Increases Mating
#9I look forward to the day a majority of people realize that our biology is, to a large extent, something to be overcome. Our "natural" biological impulses are often incredibly destructive, for both ourselves (e.g. sugar cravings) and for those around us (e.g. the impulses in this article).
I don't disagree with you, but it's profound to think our goal is to evolve to no longer be human. Perhaps machine intelligence will be the better version of ourselves; we're just the bootstrap code.
> but it's profound to think our goal is to evolve to no longer be human.
What makes us human? We know from experience that children are often cruel towards other animals, even other children,and get drunk on power too easily. So this kind of aggression is something innate, right?
But we have learned from experience that it's not good for us as a society, so we train them( at least in most cultures) to be kind and compassionate.
Now what is more human then- brutality or compassion? Of course compassion. It doesn't matter that this trait is not innate. What matters is that we have consciously chosen to cultivate and promote this trait. Call it "conscious" evolution, if you will. But it doesn't make us any less of a human. It makes us more human- the human that has collectively evolved using transfer of experience through language.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't disagree with you, but it's profound to think our goal is to evolve to no longer be human. Perhaps machine intelligence will be the better version of ourselves; we're just the bootstrap code.
This is actually my theory of life -- humanity will eventually create a "perfect" version of ourselves, which with then exterminate us because we are inferior, and then the AI-human race will create a perfect society and branch off to explore the universe.
This is also how I see things going. Humans end more or less, and give birth to machine children. I don't think any part of it will be perfect though. It'll just be some starting condition playing out according to platonic principles interacting with arbitrary specifics like how far the nearest reserve of iron is in the universe, etc.