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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Risks & The Metacrisis
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Importance of Proselytizing
In the evolutionary environment, where there was actual food scarcity, we evolved dopamine-ergic, dopamine opioid responses to salt, fat, and sugar. As soon as we could produce lots of those things, our genetics didn't change. So we're able to kind of take an evolutionary signal and hijack it. And this is obviously what fast food does to the evolutionary programs around food. It's what social media does to the impulses for social connectivity.
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