Coltan Scrivner

That was a good thing, right?

That ended up being a good thing.

But what it did is it selected for humans who were good at planning, who had control over their aggression, who were aggressive, but they could control it, right?

And who were good at thinking into the future.

And those are all good things as long as that person is on your side, as long as that person is moral in the way that you understand morality.

occasionally you would get an antisocial person who also had those abilities.

And so what do they become?

They become someone who, a parasite, someone who, if they're extra violent, could be a serial killer.

And so humans had this whole new type of aggression that no other species had encountered, and they were entirely unprepared cognitively to predict this.

Again, in the past with reactive aggression, the reactively aggressive person or animal is telling you, I'm going to hurt you if you try this, right?

There was no question about it.

With proactively aggressive people, they sit back and they let those thoughts kind of fester and then they plot and they plan.

And when they see you, they're not going to give you any indication that they're going to try to hurt you because that would lower their chances of success.

And so what's the only way to learn about somebody who's proactively aggressive?

It's to learn about

their story after they did the thing.

So after they committed the crime, how did they do it?

Why didn't we know this person was going to do that?

What cues did they miss that they could have picked up on?

Why didn't Caesar know that the senators were conspiring against him?