| ▲ | card_zero 12 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We have to be genetically adapted to survive food deliveries and TikTok? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | pinkmuffinere 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why not? The claim (which I believe is well supported) is that these things hijack some innate impulses to trap us in bad decisions. If you consistently make bad decisions (eg, put off developing your life) your line is less likely to continue. This is just like animals that didn’t run from humans — they didn’t know to be scared of us and now they’re dead. Even massive things that could crush us can be killed if we slip through their defenses. The ones that survive are the ones that learn to fear the dangerous thing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | quantummagic 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The point is that to the extent it causes certain individuals to lose faith in humanity, or become reclusive, and as a result not reproduce -- it has the effect of altering the overall genetic makeup of subsequent generations. The net result being a population "adapted" to this new environment. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||