Comments on: Asches to Asches http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:57:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Miscellaneous Gadgets 20140604 | TiaMart Blog http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/#comment-132143 Sat, 09 Aug 2014 08:58:32 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2161#comment-132143 […] Asches to Asches (one other “brief story” by Yvain). […]

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]]> By: Andrew G. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/#comment-129862 Sun, 03 Aug 2014 21:51:25 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2161#comment-129862 … non-sequitur? or spambot?

(it’s from “What I Am” by Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians)

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]]> By: Robert http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/#comment-129852 Sun, 03 Aug 2014 21:27:29 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2161#comment-129852 “Shove me into shallow water before I get too deep”
was that Alanis Morsette?

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]]> By: Robert http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/#comment-129847 Sun, 03 Aug 2014 21:22:11 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2161#comment-129847 Think about it… does anyone believe they are wrong? Could Hitler do the things that we, today, consider atrocities if he thought they were wrong?

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]]> By: Miscellaneous Gadgets 20140604 | JanNews Blog http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/#comment-103277 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:59:11 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2161#comment-103277 […] Asches to Asches (one other “brief story” by Yvain). […]

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]]> By: Troy http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/#comment-96754 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:05:59 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2161#comment-96754 The aliens at the end seem to me to be investigating a question that very likely has no answer. What social arrangements are “optimal” depends a great deal on the psychology and culture of the social group in question. It seems consistent with the story that in our world families are optimal and in the other world you keep going to, families are not.

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]]> By: Russell http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/#comment-96204 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 02:24:01 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2161#comment-96204 Congratulations on an original and thought provoking post.

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]]> By: Don’t Be An Asch-Hole | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/#comment-96102 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:05:08 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2161#comment-96102 […] Asches to Asches […]

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]]> By: Anthony http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/#comment-96069 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 23:02:53 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2161#comment-96069 A blogger who was also a web developer was writing about his work setup, and the 50 open firefox tabs, and said he doesn’t have ADD – it’s not a disorder if you make your living from it.

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]]> By: Tom Hunt http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/03/asches-to-asches/#comment-95945 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:33:52 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2161#comment-95945 Interesting idea.

I think it still doesn’t hold together at the start, quite, because in pre-industrial civilizations, the limiting factor on population was never physically bearing enough children, it was always having the resources available to keep them alive. Thus, until fairly recent developments, whenever you had the spare resources for another child, you usually had another child of your actual blood to take them up. And having an intelligent, loyal follower who also shares half your genes is a bigger evolutionary advantage than having one that’s genetically a stranger.

The obvious exception is when you expect the adopted-in child to be fitter as an ally than your own blood (due to an impressive family history, say). Then you have an incentive to keep them around both as an ally and with a view to breeding with your own blood children later on. But this seems a rare enough case that it wouldn’t foster a universal social norm, but a practice of making exceptions when warranted (much as adoption actually is today).

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