Konkvistador comments on Open Thread, May 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 May 2012 09:18:18AM *  4 points [-]

Before I comment a nitpick:

Because of the fundamentally broken and irrational nature of how our psychology interacts with the non-ansectral environment, all of our imperfect arrangements will inevitably produce much psychological and/or social suffering and "dysfunction"

While I do agree we are worse off in this regard because of the strangeness of the modern world, there is no reason to think nature wouldn't produce some or perhaps quite a bit of social and psychological suffering even with us being perfectly well adapted to our environment.

I mean we don't expect it to do so with physical pain.

Comment author: Multiheaded 14 May 2012 09:33:50AM *  1 point [-]

Yes, yes, I agree. By the local standards I might be a bit of a hippie, but the last thing I want to do is demonize the modern life and compare it negatively with the "natural" (mindless & chaos-spawned) alternative. I was merely focusing on the current problem.