They way we train ourselves is the same way we most commonly train our animals, which is through a predominately negative-reinforcement model rather than a +R one. Which is loss aversion. We do it because we believe in original sin, in punishment, in our own innate un-enoughness and supposed evil base nature as situated in christianity/puritanism/capitalism and the assumed natural greed of humans so often used as justification for it. Etc. etc. But we are not evil and we are not bad, at our cores. We turn toward the sun.
Part I is interesting, I didn't know that there were some empirical discrepancies found to the Prospect Theory model, I've always thought it to be a leading contender for an alternative to the (obviously false) closed form utility function paradigm in Microeconomics
Part III is missing the message of hope: with everyone looking to optimize their image of a thing, one can much easier get what they want in the real world by promising someone else get public credit for it. And more broadly, there is simply much less competition for scarce physical goods and visceral experiences.
I first noticed the emergence of part III in 2015. Hall & Oates were playing at a large music festival in Atlanta, and when they started playing one of their most popular songs, lots of people cheered, but not many danced! Tbf, H&O were mainly popular in the 80s, but if you like the music, why wouldn't you dance?
It’s been going on for longer than that. Christian Lander mentioned “not dancing at concerts” in Stuff White People Like and that book came out in 2008.
They way we train ourselves is the same way we most commonly train our animals, which is through a predominately negative-reinforcement model rather than a +R one. Which is loss aversion. We do it because we believe in original sin, in punishment, in our own innate un-enoughness and supposed evil base nature as situated in christianity/puritanism/capitalism and the assumed natural greed of humans so often used as justification for it. Etc. etc. But we are not evil and we are not bad, at our cores. We turn toward the sun.
I love most of your writing, but II is way off
https://philomaticalgorhythms.substack.com/p/psa-ai-will-not-take-your-job-and
Part I is interesting, I didn't know that there were some empirical discrepancies found to the Prospect Theory model, I've always thought it to be a leading contender for an alternative to the (obviously false) closed form utility function paradigm in Microeconomics
Part III is missing the message of hope: with everyone looking to optimize their image of a thing, one can much easier get what they want in the real world by promising someone else get public credit for it. And more broadly, there is simply much less competition for scarce physical goods and visceral experiences.
I first noticed the emergence of part III in 2015. Hall & Oates were playing at a large music festival in Atlanta, and when they started playing one of their most popular songs, lots of people cheered, but not many danced! Tbf, H&O were mainly popular in the 80s, but if you like the music, why wouldn't you dance?
It’s been going on for longer than that. Christian Lander mentioned “not dancing at concerts” in Stuff White People Like and that book came out in 2008.