Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality

Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in... by erikpukinskis on Friday March 17, 2017 @01:20PM (#13895878)

I doubt we're more intelligent than apes. We just have some specialized language machinery that allowed a new parasitic species (memes) to evolve on top of us. We're just apes with a "copy" button in our brains. We look intelligent, but that's just because we're being farmed by memes.

The memes aren't smart either, but the 2-layer system is smarter than any 1-layer system.

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Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in... by hyperpallium on Saturday March 18, 2017 @08:23AM (#13900967)

Our brains are much larger than apes' (IIRC about 4x), but survival advantage based on memes could well have provided the gradient. BTW yes, I have read The Selfish Gene, where Dawkins coined the term and concept.

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Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in... by marknutter on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:39AM (#13905831)

But you and Dawkins.. oh yes, you're much more intelligent than apes..

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