Evolution is about adaptation and not about competition. Darwin stated
it many times and just because Dawkins writes about selfish genes does
not make it a truth. Today we are living in a world of absolute
abundance and there is no reason to maintain a fear, ego and competition
driven framework.
Our competitive monetary system and neoliberal capitalism induce a
culture of fear, ego and competition because they require artificial
scarcity in order to be able to maintain markets. We are not competitive
by nature and we actually never competed over abundant stuff like we do
today. Yes, we never were that stupid before.
There are many books about how we de-evolved from cooperation to
competition and also studies about our most fundamental traits. See
https://libcom.org/library/debt-first-5000-years-david-graeber for
example or http://sacred-economics.com/read-online/ or
http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals ...
Capitalism is based on fear, ego and competition and is thus
de-evolutionary. It's one big fallacy that capitalism drives innovation.
Just because innovation happens within capitalism does not mean
capitalism is good for innovation. In fact asymmetries of knowledge,
patents, redundancy in terms of R&D, intellectual property, etc., etc.,
do hinder innovation.
We are already seeing 1930 repeating itself. Just read the news. The
system forces people into unnecessary and systemic anxiety and poverty,
people become susceptible to all sorts of propaganda and everything is
about to collapses again. Most people still believe that we need
economic growth, that austerity is necessary and that unemployment is a
bad thing in a world of abundance. As long as the majority is stuck
within those belief traps nothing will change.
In "A Cosmist Manifesto" Ben wrote. "Once the need for humans and other
advanced intelligences to labor for sustenance is eliminated, what will
be left for minds to do is precisely to create and appreciate art."
Unfortunately for this to become a reality our socioeconomic framework
needs to collapse or we will need a spontaneous improvement in mass
spirituality/consciousness allowing us to overcome this insanity in a
productive way or some benevolent AGI system?
On 03/18/2014 03:16 PM, Aaron Hosford wrote:
For any system to work, it must acknowledge that no matter how much we
dislike the fact, these drives are irrevocably part of our nature, and
find a way to appropriately respond to that fact.
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AGI
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