army1987 comments on Ethics in a Feedback Loop: A Parable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 July 2014 07:22:17PM *  5 points [-]

Foragers were probably equivalent to baboons, and farming made it much worse.

Certain people claim that traditional farmer sexual norms (lifelong monogamous marriage where only the husband worked for money) were better than the forager ways that we're reverting to, and it's not totally obvious they're wrong. (IMO neither is a Pareto improvement over the other, so which one is better depends on what you mean by “better”, and in any event farmers weren't the same everywhere. And in many places the top 0.1% of farmers behaved like foragers anyway.)