Alex O'Connor
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2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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That society will die out.
Another society which just so happens to perhaps delusion, like in an exercise of delusion, just develop this inexplicable feeling that
And, of course, this evolves over time and starts with essentially the kind of random mutation of ideas that works on the genetic level in evolution.
They call it memetics when it's ideas rather than genes.
The society which just ends up developing this idea that actually I can't quite explain why, but I just have this drive towards building a society and engaging in legal justice and moral systems.
They're just more likely to survive.
So we end up with this idea.
sense, this drive within us that we can't explain and yet we have.
So imagine for the majority of our evolutionary history what it was like.
Every single day you woke up and you did not know if you were going to have a roof over your head.
You didn't know if you were going to have food to eat.
You had to go out and you had to hunt it.
You had to go and find it every single day.
The game reset.
And so I would imagine that those lives were probably quite meaningful, at least in the sense that I don't think there will have been many existential crises on a day-to-day because the purpose was quite clear.
And like Pascal's Gambler, they had a task that they think will fulfill them when they get it, and they don't know whether it's going to be fulfilled.
So what's happened today?
Well, now we've been given the money without the game.
We've got houses.
We've got food.
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