Re:Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuas...
by coppernoodles on Thursday December 04, 2025 @05:58AM
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You can't easily apply natural selection to social topics. Also, even staying in that mindframe: Being vulnerable to AI psychosis doesn't seem to be much of a selection pressure, because people usually don't die from it, and can have children before it shows, and also with it. Non-AI psychosis also still exists after thousands of years.
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Re:Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuas...
by andsoitis on Thursday December 04, 2025 @06:02AM
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Even if AI psychosis doesn’t present selection pressure (I don’t think there’s a way to know a priori), I highly doubt it presents an existential risk to the human gene pool. Do you think it does?
Re:Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuas...
by array_key_first on Thursday December 04, 2025 @06:54PM
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Historically, wealthy and powerful people present the largest risk to the human gene pool, arguably even larger than disease.