/lit/ - Literature

>>9967139
>this is interesting but the simulation's rules are literally "socially constructed" in this case, low dimensional automata models like this are a weak case for any social science hypothesis

I mean, until our AI overlords come along literally every stimulation hitherto has been a product, in some sense, of human input; I don't think it's fair to nullify an entire study based on that fact alone, especially when you look at their methodology. Otherwise all stimulations ever conducted are, by necessity, bunkum.

It's also helpful to be cognizant of the fact that Kaznatcheev and Shultz are as lefty as they come, so if they have any incentive for finagling with inputs it's in the direction of humanitarianism.

>>9967175

Don't ask me for a citation but iirc only something like 3-7% of marriages within any race are interracial, and that's in the most liberal countries. Not only of these marriages produce children, either. It will definitely have an effect though. But also I don't know in what context the study is being performed, perhaps it is not in a multiracial society. But I assume ethnocentrism is helpful even in intra-society, multiracial situations, let alone huge international conflicts.