22 - Shard Theory with Quintin Pope

[@Dan-dy8zp]

Also, it seems relevant that bilateral anterior cingulate cortex destruction produces a psychopath, at any age. That seems a very important point. We don't really learn moral behavior, not from a blank slate exposure to our world. We learn morality the way we learn to walk. Its perfecting our strategy for doing something we basically already know how to do instinctively.

[@Dan-dy8zp]

There's a lot more than heartbeat and such we are born with. We expect 3 dimensions of space and one of time and that we are agents with preferences for future states of the world. We expect other things that move or have what appear to be 'eyes', to be other agents. We try to figure out what those agents 'want' soon after birth. We can exhibit jealousy by 3 months of age. We can recognize some facial expressions instinctively. People can have phantom limb syndrome who never had the limb, so there is a mental map of a normal human body. Probably many many more things.

[@BrainWrinklers]

Hey Quinten, wanna come on our show? We talk rationality and AI safety+alignment.

[@Dan-dy8zp]

Religiosity is considered heritable 25%-60% .