Re:People try to do right by each other, no matter the motiv...
by tikititaki on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:32PM
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> What perplexing is to think about how humans can cooperate effectively on a scale of billion people to solve humanity biggest problems.
I think the opposite is true. We cannot properly cooperate effectively on a large scale to solve humanity's biggest problems. Just look at the attempts for global nuclear disarmament, it has been a failure. Look at the accelerating impact of carbon on the environment, it has been a catastrophic failure.
I think while the article shows an interesting bit about human psychology, that we are all secretly altruists at heart, which I believe is true.. But what governs the important global decisions isn't humanity. They're massive organizations and these massive organizations (whether a nation state or mega-corp) are made of humans, but they're not human.
They operate in another way, just like an ant colony, the emergent behavior of many ants, operates in an entirely different way than an individual ant.
I think the opposite is true. We cannot properly cooperate effectively on a large scale to solve humanity's biggest problems. Just look at the attempts for global nuclear disarmament, it has been a failure. Look at the accelerating impact of carbon on the environment, it has been a catastrophic failure.
I think while the article shows an interesting bit about human psychology, that we are all secretly altruists at heart, which I believe is true.. But what governs the important global decisions isn't humanity. They're massive organizations and these massive organizations (whether a nation state or mega-corp) are made of humans, but they're not human.
They operate in another way, just like an ant colony, the emergent behavior of many ants, operates in an entirely different way than an individual ant.