The hippy oath “love is all you need” is deeper than people give it credit for
I think love / affection is the bodymind’s evolved mechanism to quickly change your reward function eg after having a child. And for just about everything, reward is enough sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
I think love / affection is the bodymind’s evolved mechanism to quickly change your reward function eg after having a child. And for just about everything, reward is enough sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
It’s also why if we solve programmable affection we’ll get a lot of the other things we care about for free
https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1402700119376543746
Whoops it’s “all you need is love” I got it backwards. I’m too used to “X is all you need” from AI papers 🙃
In a sense love is the real version of what society generally thinks willpower is. The problem is we don’t control it. But once we do we’ll all start behaving as if we had a tremendous amount of willpower
Imagine how much willpower it would take to care for your neighbors kid you don’t have an emotional bond to for a decade as thoroughly would your own child
It’d be basically impossible, willpower just isn’t strong enough. But love is, because that’s the cause of the difference
It’d be basically impossible, willpower just isn’t strong enough. But love is, because that’s the cause of the difference
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