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The objective function for humans seems to be "Perfect the Human Soul" which can have conflicting optima in different contexts. Obviously no other mammal optimizes for it, either. See any slice of human culture or human activity ever for reference. Thanks for putting this slideshow together.

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Nah it's just "survive and replicate". like every other species. Except that it's harder for us than other species, in particular, because a small human child is super fragile (more than like a giraffe baby) so you need a lot of care, and a lot of intelligence to do that care.

Nah I maintain "Survive and replicate" is a sub-problem in the larger "Perfect ones' Soul" objective function.

What is a "soul"? I can define "survive and replicate" for you, on the other hand.

<rant>This exemplifies the issue I have with current day philosophy. It's too blissfully unaware of the discoveries in AI. While they redefine consciousness the 1000th time, the AI researchers make "Reinforcement Learning Agents" that play Go, drive cars, paint, draw and can take a pizza order from you. Philosophers, get more concrete.</>

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