Depending on what you mean by mistake I don’t think those implications are absurd at all.
The agricultural revolution wasn’t a decision humanity made, it’s game theory. More resources, more babies, and your ideas survive.
I’m not even saying that modernization was a mistake, which btw we could be less happy and i would still not necessarily say it was a mistake (again, depending on what you mean by mistake). It’s just that I think you are anthropromorphizing cultural natural selection as a well thought out decision with the intention of maximizing current utility.
Depending on what you mean by mistake I don’t think those implications are absurd at all.
The agricultural revolution wasn’t a decision humanity made, it’s game theory. More resources, more babies, and your ideas survive.
I’m not even saying that modernization was a mistake, which btw we could be less happy and i would still not necessarily say it was a mistake (again, depending on what you mean by mistake). It’s just that I think you are anthropromorphizing cultural natural selection as a well thought out decision with the intention of maximizing current utility.