Re:Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy
by carapace on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:46PM
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> There is no evolutionary reason to believe that literally all your brain power is devoted to cost benefit analysis
The brain uses something like 1/5th of the oxygen you take in, what is it doing with all that?
If we use the phrase "cost benefit analysis" in a general sense (rather than the specific activity [1]) for coming up with the "best" thing to do then I think it's practically tautological that your brain is a gland for just that.
> if that were the case, under the presumption that we have some self-determination, it wouldn't tell us much about whether its morally good or not or aesthetically pleasing or whatever criteria we might use.
From what might be called an "evolutionary fundamentalist" POV "self-determination" is also something your CBA-gland does to get your genes into the future and (perhaps paradoxically) you don't get a choice about using it to maximize your expected future benefit.
The brain uses something like 1/5th of the oxygen you take in, what is it doing with all that?
If we use the phrase "cost benefit analysis" in a general sense (rather than the specific activity [1]) for coming up with the "best" thing to do then I think it's practically tautological that your brain is a gland for just that.
> if that were the case, under the presumption that we have some self-determination, it wouldn't tell us much about whether its morally good or not or aesthetically pleasing or whatever criteria we might use.
From what might be called an "evolutionary fundamentalist" POV "self-determination" is also something your CBA-gland does to get your genes into the future and (perhaps paradoxically) you don't get a choice about using it to maximize your expected future benefit.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost%E2%80%93benefit_analysis