Humans have not evolved to do math or physics, but we did evolve to resist manipulation and deception, these were commonplace in the ancestral environment.
This seems pretty counterintuitive to me, seeing how easily many humans fall for not-so-subtle deception and manipulation everyday.
Yes, the average human is dangerously easy to manipulate, but imagine how bad the situation would be if they didn’t spend a hundred thousand years evolving to not be easily manipulated.
Yeah. I suspect this links to a pattern I’ve noticed- in stories, especially rationalist stories, people who are successful at manipulation or highly resistant to manipulation are also highly generally intelligent. In real life, people who I know who are extremely successful at manipulation and scheming seem otherwise dumb as rocks. My suspicion is that we have a 20 watt, 2 exaflop skullduggery engine that can be hacked to run logic the same way we can hack a pregnancy test to run doom
This seems pretty counterintuitive to me, seeing how easily many humans fall for not-so-subtle deception and manipulation everyday.
Yes, the average human is dangerously easy to manipulate, but imagine how bad the situation would be if they didn’t spend a hundred thousand years evolving to not be easily manipulated.
Yeah. I suspect this links to a pattern I’ve noticed- in stories, especially rationalist stories, people who are successful at manipulation or highly resistant to manipulation are also highly generally intelligent. In real life, people who I know who are extremely successful at manipulation and scheming seem otherwise dumb as rocks. My suspicion is that we have a 20 watt, 2 exaflop skullduggery engine that can be hacked to run logic the same way we can hack a pregnancy test to run doom