Didn’t think the community needed a key but anyway here’s my thoughts atleast:
In this analogy, the idea of morality in human society is being depicted in the activity of the cells in a single human body.
Cells = Individuals
The Body = Society
Cancer = Criminals (anyone who takes advantage of the “rules of the game” aka society)
p53 = Law / Enforcement of Rules
Genetic morality, in this example, is seen in the individual cell’s resistance to “going cancerous”. Through a variety of genetic mechanisms (such as telomere caps) cells “resist the urge” to become cancerous, “taking advantage of the body’s utopian surplus”, i.e. taking advantage of Western society’s “utopian surplus”. Those genetic “morality” (assuming you see cancer as immoral...) mechanisms do degrade, in some cells faster than others even. And the surpluses of society do get taken advantage of. We see that in more ways than we can count.
Here is where I think things get interesting, and the entire point why I posted it, for people to discuss this part:
You now confront the basic problem of morality. It is the alignment of individual incentives with the global needs of the structure.
Patterns will participate in a structure only if participation benefits their ability to go on existing.
The more successful the structure grows, the more temptation accrues to cheat. And the greater the advantage the cheaters gain over their honest neighbors.
And the greater the ability they develop to capture the very laws that should prevent their selfishness.
To prevent this, the structure must punish cheaters with a violence that grows in proportion to its own success.
Do we live in that world? Are the incentives of our society pointed in a direction which will strengthen and preserve it, or are the incentives generally fueling a race to the bottom? What are the dominant “Patterns” in our world today - are they Individuals (Musk, Trump, whoever) or Groups (BLM, ADL, ZOG, etc)? Have these dominant Patterns captured the rules themselves? Have the rules been captured beyond repair? Can the “structure” survive the “disease”?
Didn’t think the community needed a key but anyway here’s my thoughts atleast:
In this analogy, the idea of morality in human society is being depicted in the activity of the cells in a single human body.
Cells = Individuals
The Body = Society
Cancer = Criminals (anyone who takes advantage of the “rules of the game” aka society)
p53 = Law / Enforcement of Rules
Genetic morality, in this example, is seen in the individual cell’s resistance to “going cancerous”. Through a variety of genetic mechanisms (such as telomere caps) cells “resist the urge” to become cancerous, “taking advantage of the body’s utopian surplus”, i.e. taking advantage of Western society’s “utopian surplus”. Those genetic “morality” (assuming you see cancer as immoral...) mechanisms do degrade, in some cells faster than others even. And the surpluses of society do get taken advantage of. We see that in more ways than we can count.
Here is where I think things get interesting, and the entire point why I posted it, for people to discuss this part:
You now confront the basic problem of morality. It is the alignment of individual incentives with the global needs of the structure.
Patterns will participate in a structure only if participation benefits their ability to go on existing.
The more successful the structure grows, the more temptation accrues to cheat. And the greater the advantage the cheaters gain over their honest neighbors.
And the greater the ability they develop to capture the very laws that should prevent their selfishness.
To prevent this, the structure must punish cheaters with a violence that grows in proportion to its own success.
Do we live in that world? Are the incentives of our society pointed in a direction which will strengthen and preserve it, or are the incentives generally fueling a race to the bottom? Have the rules been captured beyond repair? Can the “structure” survive the “disease”?
Didn’t think the community needed a key but anyway here’s my thoughts atleast:
In this analogy, the idea of morality in human society is being depicted in the activity of the cells in a single human body.
Cells = Individuals
The Body = Society
Cancer = Criminals (anyone who takes advantage of the “rules of the game” aka society)
p53 = Law / Enforcement of Rules
Genetic morality, in this example, is seen in the individual cell’s resistance to “going cancerous”. Through a variety of genetic mechanisms (such as telomere caps) cells “resist the urge” to become cancerous, “taking advantage of the body’s utopian surplus”, i.e. taking advantage of Western society’s “utopian surplus”. Those genetic “morality” (assuming you see cancer as immoral...) mechanisms do degrade, in some cells faster than others even. And the surpluses of society do get taken advantage of. We see that in more ways than we can count.
Here is where I think things get interesting, and the entire point why I posted it, for people to discuss this part:
You now confront the basic problem of morality. It is the alignment of individual incentives with the global needs of the structure.
Patterns will participate in a structure only if participation benefits their ability to go on existing.
The more successful the structure grows, the more temptation accrues to cheat. And the greater the advantage the cheaters gain over their honest neighbors.
And the greater the ability they develop to capture the very laws that should prevent their selfishness.
To prevent this, the structure must punish cheaters with a violence that grows in proportion to its own success.
Do we live in that world? Are the incentives of our society pointed in a direction which will strength and preserve it, or are the incentives generally fueling a race to the bottom? Have the rules been captured beyond repair? Can the “structure” survive the “disease”?
Didn’t think the community needed a key but anyway here’s my thoughts atleast:
In this analogy, the idea of morality in human society is being depicted in the activity of the cells in a single human body.
Cells = Individuals
The Body = Society
Cancer = Criminals (anyone who takes advantage of the “rules of the game” aka society)
p53 = Law / Enforcement of Rules
Genetic morality, in this example, is seen in the individual cell’s resistance to “going cancerous”. Through a variety of genetic mechanisms (such as telomere caps) cells “resist the urge” to become cancerous, “taking advantage of the body’s utopian surplus”, i.e. taking advantage of Western society’s “utopian surplus”. Those genetic “morality” (assuming you see cancer as immoral...) mechanisms do degrade, in some cells faster than others even. And the surpluses of society do get taken advantage of. We see that in more ways than we can count.
Here is where I think things get interesting, and the entire point why I posted it, for people to discuss this part:
You now confront the basic problem of morality. It is the alignment of individual incentives with the global needs of the structure.
Patterns will participate in a structure only if participation benefits their ability to go on existing.
The more successful the structure grows, the more temptation accrues to cheat. And the greater the advantage the cheaters gain over their honest neighbors.
And the greater the ability they develop to capture the very laws that should prevent their selfishness.
To prevent this, the structure must punish cheaters with a violence that grows in proportion to its own success.
Do we live in that world? Have the rules been captured beyond repair? Can the “structure” survive the “disease”?
Didn’t think the community needed a key but anyway here’s my thoughts atleast:
In this analogy, the idea of morality in human society is being depicted in the activity of the cells in a single human body.
Cells = Individuals
The Body = Society
Cancer = Criminals (anyone who takes advantage of the “rules of the game” aka society)
p53 = Law / Enforcement of Rules
Genetic morality, in this example, is seen in the individual cell’s resistance to “going cancerous”. Through a variety of genetic mechanisms (such as telomere caps) cells “resist the urge” to become cancerous, “taking advantage of the body’s utopian surplus”, i.e. taking advantage of Western society’s “utopian surplus”. Those genetic “morality” (assuming you see cancer as immoral...) mechanisms do degrade, in some cells faster than others even. And the surpluses of society do get taken advantage of. We see that in more ways than we can count.
Here is where I think things get interesting, and the entire point why I posted it, for people to discuss this part:
You now confront the basic problem of morality. It is the alignment of individual incentives with the global needs of the structure.
Patterns will participate in a structure only if participation benefits their ability to go on existing.
The more successful the structure grows, the more temptation accrues to cheat. And the greater the advantage the cheaters gain over their honest neighbors.
And the greater the ability they develop to capture the very laws that should prevent their selfishness.
To prevent this, the structure must punish cheaters with a violence that grows in proportion to its own success.