I mean homeostasis in the sense of “keeping conditions within the range where one is healthily alive”, not in the sense of “keeping everything the same”.
But that still isn’t the sole explanation of human behaviour, because humans do flourishing type stuff like going on dates, going to college, going to the gym.
I’m not saying that it is the sole explanation of all human behavior, I’m saying that it is a major class of behaviors that is difficult to stop people from engaging in and which is necessary for the effectiveness of humans in influencing the world.
Not sure what the relevance of global warming is to this discussion.
Insofar as that is true, seems like a scale issue. (It doesn’t seem entirely true—global warming is a major problem, but not exactly an x-risk. Many of the biggest contributors to global warming are not the ones who will be hit the hardest. And there’s a tragedy of the commons issue to it.)
But that still isn’t the sole explanation of human behaviour, because humans do flourishing type stuff like going on dates, going to college, going to the gym.
Also: global warming.
I’m not saying that it is the sole explanation of all human behavior, I’m saying that it is a major class of behaviors that is difficult to stop people from engaging in and which is necessary for the effectiveness of humans in influencing the world.
Not sure what the relevance of global warming is to this discussion.
Global warming is humans moving conditions out of the range where one is healthily alive.
Insofar as that is true, seems like a scale issue. (It doesn’t seem entirely true—global warming is a major problem, but not exactly an x-risk. Many of the biggest contributors to global warming are not the ones who will be hit the hardest. And there’s a tragedy of the commons issue to it.)