I know what you mean about Roberts, but “relatively awful” compared to what? It was still pretty good relative to any podcast I’ve ever heard.

Basically, I meant something like, say, consider potentially altruistic behavior X… are we on some level computing how to do X in a way that’ll do good (by some meaning of that term), and the desire/etc to do that was selected for because it “sent the right signals”, or insted is some part of us explicity computing what actions to take to send the right signals? (Well, obviously the latter is true at least sometimes. I meant to what extent would the former type of thing is going on vs the latter type of thing?)

Does that clarify what I meant?

Thinking about it a bit while listening to it made me a bit uncomfortable, but… either way, I’d rather know than not know, rather have more self knowledge than less. I’ll just have to keep reminding myself as I do find those things out the whole “what’s true is already true and I’ve already been living with it” thing.

On the other hand, I may start getting paranoid about myself. What was I trying to signal by typing the above? What am I signalling by asking that? What about that? etc, so I’ll have to be careful lest my head a splode.

Got a question about all of it, though: To what extent would to say the signalling behavior is “deliberate”, in the sense of some part of us, subconsciously, going “I gotta signal such and such” in some sense, vs the signalling behaviors simply being behaviors that were selected for because they signal certain things _without_ us in any sense intending signalling?

I thought it was a good podcast.