/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous

 >>/5755/
Does he say all human behaviour is signaling or anything like that? I've noticed a lot of fans implying it but that seems nonsensical.

 >>/6112/
The core thesis is that everything we do is ultimately selfish or genetically selfish, or a currently maladaptive execution of a selfish adaptation - you get the idea, even though it's not in our interest to be consciously aware of it. That's the elephant in the room/brain, something that's really obvious but rarely discussed.
That means a huge chunk of human behavior is signaling, including a lot of less obvious things. Like voting, for example - the miniscule probability of changing the outcome isn't selfishly worth the time investment, but it's an excellent opportunity to signal that you're smart/knowledgeable/loyal. It even claims much of healthcare is signaling.
Not absolutely everything is signaling, but there's a lot more of it than you'd think.

 >>/6112/
>  Does he say all human behaviour is signaling or anything like that? 

Not as much in the book than in his blog. 

>  I've noticed a lot of fans implying it but that seems nonsensical.

It is.

I honestly found this book echoing thoughts I already have. I have a big deterministic hardon. I have yet to find a counter argument.

 >>/6131/
> deterministic hardon
this sounds like something out of rationalist doujinshi.

 >>/6139/

>  “Please, onii-san.  I want to you to be my first. I want to feel you inside me before anyone else.”

>  “But you're my little sister,” I said. “We can't… *I* can't do it, it's *wrong*.”

>  “And yet you can’t *not* do it, can you? Ultimately, humans are just state machines. Every stimulus”—here she looked me in the eye and started to lazily shrug off her pink pajamas top, exposing a nipple—“triggers a chain reactions of chemicals and firing neurons, which eventually lead to a response.” She glanced downwards and smiled knowingly.

>  “Onii-san, whatever will happen in this room was was determined by the laws of nature. There is no ‘ought’ without a ‘can’. You don’t have any moral responsibility, because you never had a choice.”

 >>/6148/
except the whole point of the book is that were are not practicing incest for example because of the pregnancy risk, practical birth control is only something recent

 >>/6131/

are you hard enough for superdeterminism?