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M. Miller, C. Peterson, A, Duettman: What's at Stake in the Game? | Gaming the Future Book Club

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The Importance of Longevity Over Cognitive Enhancement

I suspect that people would just have a lot more long term thinking if they personally expected to live once. And like our brain is basically the same as a caveman's brain and it was not evolved for this era. They're trying to create one of scarcity where cooperation would often lead to starvation If you're too generous possibly. We should also recognize some of the other frictions that are not in the individual brains. One of the major sources of friction that leads to the Max Planck quote about physics or any intellectual field making progress one death at a time is credentialism. There's too much waiting of reputation and expertise towards official credentialed experts. Not enough robustness of these emergent

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