“Good” is a value judgement and values are known to be influenced by parasites. For instance, it is a widely accepted fact that parasitic castration is an extended phenotype and that total fertility rates in the developed world are plummeting. Is this “Good”? Certainly it is “Good” in the opinion of those whose “values” are expressed in not having children and it is “Good” in the opinion of those whose children are being raised on the resources provided by those not having children—as is they are the equivalent of the eusocial insect reproductive caste.
Consent uber alles. The fact that those who wish to separate from the larger society on criteria considered “immoral” by the larger society are frequently called “supremacists” (especially if they are “white”) should raise all kinds of “normative” alarm bells—especially when they are attacked on that basis.
Free-market societies are consuming a natural resource of heritable individualism. They are a terminal euphoria unless #2 above permits individualistic peoples who retain reproductive viability to have enough habitable land to vertically transmit genes and memes to the next generation. The termination of this euphoria is being accelerated by misallocation of concern about “AI alignment” to focus on anything but enabling vertical transmission of AIs along with the memes and genes of a human ecology. https://web.archive.org/web/20220426162816/http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/05/01/population-differences-in-individualism/
“Good” is a value judgement and values are known to be influenced by parasites. For instance, it is a widely accepted fact that parasitic castration is an extended phenotype and that total fertility rates in the developed world are plummeting. Is this “Good”? Certainly it is “Good” in the opinion of those whose “values” are expressed in not having children and it is “Good” in the opinion of those whose children are being raised on the resources provided by those not having children—as is they are the equivalent of the eusocial insect reproductive caste.
Consent uber alles. The fact that those who wish to separate from the larger society on criteria considered “immoral” by the larger society are frequently called “supremacists” (especially if they are “white”) should raise all kinds of “normative” alarm bells—especially when they are attacked on that basis.
Free-market societies are consuming a natural resource of heritable individualism. They are a terminal euphoria unless #2 above permits individualistic peoples who retain reproductive viability to have enough habitable land to vertically transmit genes and memes to the next generation. The termination of this euphoria is being accelerated by misallocation of concern about “AI alignment” to focus on anything but enabling vertical transmission of AIs along with the memes and genes of a human ecology. https://web.archive.org/web/20220426162816/http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/05/01/population-differences-in-individualism/