Keith Henson
Keith Henson
Howard Keith Hensonis an American electrical engineer and writer on space engineering, space law, memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology and physical limitations of Transhumanism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
compulsive gamblers rewards step unless
The rewards that compulsive gamblers get are only one step removed from exogenous chemicals, unless you are a big winner.
attitude rare-person adults
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
iceland generations france
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
games play killing
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
teacher lying skills
Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.
recovery people long
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
aggravation flying wonder
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
family giving-up home
Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
cards cost credit
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
brain problem victim
Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.
military movement social
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
suicide growth population
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
brain attention way
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
evolved humans
Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.