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From A Jewish Cantor is Wondering About How Jordan Peterson Forgot the Future Meaning of the Biblical… by Giuro Quasimodo
… the next authoritarian manic dictator without starting any sorting out of their archetypal dreams. The question arises: are the Marxist Ideal Future Visions not also producing dopamine…as Marx himself has said: “Religion is the opiate for the masses”. And his beloved poly-theists the Babylonians and Egyptians with their human sacrifice and slave arm…
From The Logic of Risk Taking by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Even worse, as I have shown in Antifragile, the fragility of the components is required to ensure the solidity of the system. If humans were immortals, they would go extinct from an accident, or from a gradual buildup of misfitness. But shorter shelf life for humans allows genetic changes to accompany the variability in the environment.