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>literally just primitive attempts at Game Theory and evolutionary psychology with some speculative cosmology thrown in

>> No.15878906
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The Bible gets human nature down better than evolutionary psychology:
>If you hear advice from a grandmother or elders, odds are that it works 90 percent of the time. On the other hand, in part because of scientism and academic prostitution, in part because the world is hard, if you read anything by psychologists and behavioral scientists, odds are that it works at less than 10 percent, unless it is has also been covered by the grandmother and the classics, in which case why would you need a psychologist? Consider that a recent effort to replicate the hundred psychology papers in “prestigious” journals of 2008 found that, out of a hundred, only thirty-nine replicated. Of these thirty-nine, I believe that fewer than ten are actually robust and transfer outside the narrowness of the experiment. Similar defects have been found in medicine and neuroscience; more on those later.
— N. N. Taleb

>> No.15878927

>>15878886
Evolutionary psychology is probably 90% bullshit

>> No.15878973

>>15878906
You are aware that most of the moral logic from the Bible comes from Hammurabi, right?

>> No.15878992

>>15878973
Which makes it even more Lindy

>> No.15878999

>>15878973
Yeah, the OG skin in the game. Shit's Lindy

>> No.15879051

>>15878999
Then what do I need the Bible for? I could just follow Hammurabi instead

>> No.15879080

>>15878886
the Religious rules as slowly evolved game theoretical social technologies idea does make sense to me. The similarity between the rules that various civilizations came up with is hard to ignore

>> No.15879114

>>15879051
>the Bible only took from Hammurabi

>> No.15879142

>>15878973
>tradition takes from tradition
wow based.

>>15878886
I swear I keep seeing you in threads going "read evo psych and game theory" like youre some kind of 105 IQ Butterfly who just finished his intro bio and intro econ class.

>> No.15879279

>>15878973
Where's your evidence?

>> No.15879427

>>15879142
evo psych possesses more explanatory power than theology and concerns the same faculties that theology previously sought to explain.
not sure about the game theory stuff but it seems like molecular biology would be better to supplement evo psych in its deconstruction of religious causal narratives.