[FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

[Prof David West]

My philosophy: ((everything) (once) then in moderation if it suits you)  not sure of parentheses, been a long time since Algebra I

davew


On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, at 8:05 AM, glen wrote:
> I certainly hope I'm not winning you over, accidentally or otherwise. 
> Your use of the word "fetish" is spot-on, in that such paraphilia is, 
> ultimately, unhealthy 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paraphilias> ... I guess barring 
> the "everything in moderation" principle [⛧].
>
> In fact, to be "won over" implies imprisonment, convicted to one's 
> convictions. However, I also think it's unhealthy to, say, be so 
> Luddite that you prefer "natural immunity" to vaccination ... or prefer 
> your wood burning fireplace to natural gas heat ... or to demand to 
> "talk to a person" rather than interacting with the phone tree. That 
> hyper-traditionalism is *also* an unhealthy fetish and it's why, 
> despite my conservatism, the neoreactionaries are so repulsive to me. 
> As a conservative, I constantly find myself defending the Now against 
> the fetishists of both the Yesterday and Tomorrow. Does that mean I 
> have a Now fetish? Maybe. But it's more like a reaction to the non-Now 
> fetishes around me.
>
>
> [⛧] The interpretation of "everything in moderation" depends on where 
> you put the parentheses. (Everything) (in moderation) implies you 
> *should* do just a little bit of everything ... a little sky diving ... 
> a little body modification ... a little Christianity ... a little crack 
> cocaine, etc. But (Everything in moderation) implies that whatever it 
> is you choose to do should be in moderation.
>
> On 4/13/22 12:05, Steve Smith wrote:
>> I think you are (accidentally?) winning me over to the post/trans-humanist fetish.   Just your talk of "play" and realizing how much I *already* play with automatons in the form of (see driving anecdotes) other drivers and roadway systems and (smart or dumb) traffic-lights, etc and bureaucracies.   I admit to always being taken in by (modern) science fiction stories with robot/android - human relationships... playing what might amount to a continuous, infinite game of Turing Test with them.   The same kind of "play" I currently engage in with dogs, cats, horses, watercourses, etc.   As a good animist, I can't see how I could reject the opportunity to "Play" with machine intelligences!
>> 
>> When I get a full-body prosthetic to make up for my slowly failing organic musculo-skeletal system, I will probably find great enjoyment in "playing" with it the way I currently "play" with my bicycle and other vehicles, testing (softly these days) their performance envelope and response modes.
>> 
>> Jump cut to Ridley in her  Space-Mining-Waldo-Exoskeleton  with or without an Alien opponent.
>> 
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