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Human life without signalling games would be meaningless and almost completely worthless for most people.
Signalling is so utterly fundamental to humans that we certainly shouldn't even consider proposals to replace the signal with the underlying truth. https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1317129733457530884
Signalling is so utterly fundamental to humans that we certainly shouldn't even consider proposals to replace the signal with the underlying truth. https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1317129733457530884
Imagine hetero dating, but without signalling.
You'd submit yourself to an automatic test of various types of quality and input preferences into the computer about how you trade off different qualities in the opposite gender. A match would appear. You'd be automatically married.
You'd submit yourself to an automatic test of various types of quality and input preferences into the computer about how you trade off different qualities in the opposite gender. A match would appear. You'd be automatically married.
You'd move in, maybe take some pills to increase sexual desire if you needed it and have sex. That's it.
No dates, no flirting, no looking at clothes/hobbies/beliefs. Just a computer match.
No dates, no flirting, no looking at clothes/hobbies/beliefs. Just a computer match.
Repeat this for every aspect of life. Just a computation done by some computer; no humanity.
Humanity is (in large part) the activity of sending and evaluating signals about humans. At least anything higher than the bottom levels of Maslow's Hierarchy.
Humanity is (in large part) the activity of sending and evaluating signals about humans. At least anything higher than the bottom levels of Maslow's Hierarchy.
