Lionel Page
@lionelpage.bsky.social
Director of UQ Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences. Editor of the Journal of the Economic Science Association. Book: ‘Optimally Irrational’, Substack: https://www.optimallyirrational.com/
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What came first—the chicken or the egg? Never mind that—what came first, morality or religion?
@lionelpage.bsky.social challenges (if not debunks) the common assumption that religion was a prerequisite for morality. Game theory offers a far more plausible foundation:
buff.ly/ObDnxWi
@lionelpage.bsky.social challenges (if not debunks) the common assumption that religion was a prerequisite for morality. Game theory offers a far more plausible foundation:
buff.ly/ObDnxWi
No, religion isn't required for morality
Our moral sense precedes religious doctrines
www.optimallyirrational.com
Do we need religion for morality to make sense?
Thinking that religion is required for morality is getting things backwards. Our moral sense preceded religions and shaped their ideas about right and wrong.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/no-religio...
Thinking that religion is required for morality is getting things backwards. Our moral sense preceded religions and shaped their ideas about right and wrong.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/no-religio...
The challenge of designing AI agents as helpers:
In the short term, we prefer positive feedback.
In the long term, we benefit from having harsh but fair feedback.
AI companies might make more money by following our preference for sycophancy rather than our long-term interest.
In the short term, we prefer positive feedback.
In the long term, we benefit from having harsh but fair feedback.
AI companies might make more money by following our preference for sycophancy rather than our long-term interest.