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Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.
~ Keith Henson
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I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
~ Keith Henson
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I much prefer the modern world.
~ Keith Henson
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I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
~ Keith Henson
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If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
~ Keith Henson
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Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
~ Keith Henson
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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.
~ Keith Henson
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People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
~ Keith Henson
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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
~ Keith Henson
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People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
~ Keith Henson
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Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
~ Keith Henson
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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.
~ Keith Henson
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Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
~ Keith Henson
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The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.
~ Keith Henson
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The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.
~ Keith Henson
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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.
~ Keith Henson
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A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
~ Ken Thompson
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Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
~ Ken Thompson
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I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
~ Ken Thompson
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I am a programmer.
~ Ken Thompson
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