Thank you for bringing this up—it’s a comparison that doesn’t resonate with me. I suspect that “sphexishness” is a different modeling layer than “agency”, so a direct comparison is confusing. More importantly, it’s assumed without explanation that one is bad and one is good.
For some reason, nobody’s talking about the amazing success of the Sphex wasps, and looking for ways to ensure successful behavior without everyone having to model reality individually. And we don’t talk (much) about the horror of bad choices, and how all suffering is caused by agency.
Thank you for bringing this up—it’s a comparison that doesn’t resonate with me. I suspect that “sphexishness” is a different modeling layer than “agency”, so a direct comparison is confusing. More importantly, it’s assumed without explanation that one is bad and one is good.
For some reason, nobody’s talking about the amazing success of the Sphex wasps, and looking for ways to ensure successful behavior without everyone having to model reality individually. And we don’t talk (much) about the horror of bad choices, and how all suffering is caused by agency.