Christopher James Hart, interesting read although I disagree.
Humans are herd animals, we can not survive outside a herd (community). In all herds the majority must follow the leader, a herd of independent thinkers is impossible as they would disperse and all do their own thing.
A local position of authority is permitted only if still following the overall leadership. That is why it is so easy to divide populations into blue or red sheep pens. The vast majority adopt the view of their tribe and never think things through.
This is a feature, not a bug, as you say ” group coordination is vital for survival”.
Applied wisdom is crowd control. The herd will follow any damn fool for they can not recognize wisdom, to do so they would have to be wise. Unfortunately at this time in human affairs wisdom is as scarce as hens teeth and damn fools are as common as dirt.
Group coordination evolved because it was vital for survival at a time when the group size was not the entire population. There was a margin for error. If some percent of groups took themselves out due to bad models, the entire species wasn’t eliminated. A different group that also coordinated eventual filled the empty position.
Since the human group size is now global in many aspects, the damage from a bad model could result in elimination of the species. The expected value functions are changed. The process above can still play out, but there is a very real chance the group that eventual takes over as a result of their better model is not human, because there are none left. We instead want the outcome for the species tied to a better model than it is now. It does not seem like that is a possibility if there is insistence on the human model maintaining control.
Christopher James Hart, interesting read although I disagree.
Humans are herd animals, we can not survive outside a herd (community). In all herds the majority must follow the leader, a herd of independent thinkers is impossible as they would disperse and all do their own thing.
A local position of authority is permitted only if still following the overall leadership. That is why it is so easy to divide populations into blue or red sheep pens. The vast majority adopt the view of their tribe and never think things through.
This is a feature, not a bug, as you say ” group coordination is vital for survival”.
Applied wisdom is crowd control. The herd will follow any damn fool for they can not recognize wisdom, to do so they would have to be wise. Unfortunately at this time in human affairs wisdom is as scarce as hens teeth and damn fools are as common as dirt.
Group coordination evolved because it was vital for survival at a time when the group size was not the entire population. There was a margin for error. If some percent of groups took themselves out due to bad models, the entire species wasn’t eliminated. A different group that also coordinated eventual filled the empty position.
Since the human group size is now global in many aspects, the damage from a bad model could result in elimination of the species. The expected value functions are changed. The process above can still play out, but there is a very real chance the group that eventual takes over as a result of their better model is not human, because there are none left. We instead want the outcome for the species tied to a better model than it is now. It does not seem like that is a possibility if there is insistence on the human model maintaining control.