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The evolutionary roots of paranoia The survival of the suspicious

I'm nervous of evolutionary explanations of psychological phenomena - there's such complexity in splitting evolution vs culture/nurture and you quite often end with a just so story.

BUT, this is pretty convincing: www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-evolut...

by @danwphilosophy.bsky.social

My Bumble profile includes that I'm a relatively recent widower. I've had a couple of women match, send me a message saying how they couldn't connect with me because they'll never mean as much to me as my dead wife and then ghost me/unconnect. Truly weird behaviour.

Oh! You've been missing out. They are super fun!

I'll bite. (Only an edge case though).

If we're deliberately avoiding finding out about the unintended consequences (have our heads buried deep in the sand), then we probably could be held responsible.

I may be in the process of executing "partir à l'anglais" from the bird place

I'm new here, please where are neurodivergent nice lego ghost castle forest video-game bird people?

Bunch of snakes if you ask me ;-)