RE: Open to explore possibility
February 18, 2021 at 12:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2021 at 1:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The survival game in the us, by fitness strategy, isn't actually any of that shit. It's not watching fox news. If I don't watch fox news my relative fitness will increase by an observed amount as adjudicated by mortality rates specific to covid.
Distancing, not lingering, masking, washing your hands...these things are the truth strategy in the covid game. Now...I think that probably works even better than not watching fox - but over a large pool of respondants it won't surprise me if not watching fox is the best pure fitness strategy needing to know nothing about the transmission of disease. If we intentionally handicap a more productive strategy by the construction of our experiment or simulation, then number 2 (assuming FBT is a close no. 2) becomes number 1 - which is exactly what happens in the FBT theory.
At the same time, we'll have no shortage of demonstration of the efficacy of strategy 2, because every creature one tier down in the fbt tree incapable of strategy 1 will be using strategy 2 to replicate the outcomes of strategy 1. Ants, for example..not concerned with their individual survival or the personal efficacy of their efforts. That's not how an ant colony lives or dies. FBT might hold for ants. But does it hold for an organism like us?
Distancing, not lingering, masking, washing your hands...these things are the truth strategy in the covid game. Now...I think that probably works even better than not watching fox - but over a large pool of respondants it won't surprise me if not watching fox is the best pure fitness strategy needing to know nothing about the transmission of disease. If we intentionally handicap a more productive strategy by the construction of our experiment or simulation, then number 2 (assuming FBT is a close no. 2) becomes number 1 - which is exactly what happens in the FBT theory.
At the same time, we'll have no shortage of demonstration of the efficacy of strategy 2, because every creature one tier down in the fbt tree incapable of strategy 1 will be using strategy 2 to replicate the outcomes of strategy 1. Ants, for example..not concerned with their individual survival or the personal efficacy of their efforts. That's not how an ant colony lives or dies. FBT might hold for ants. But does it hold for an organism like us?
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