... that are putting unseen evolutionary pressures on the genome of all of the human species in exstence right now. Some of you are displaying some rather deep insights into how the machine around us works, and by machine I mean the actual machine that is below the metacognitive level we normally operate on. To explain the difference, the metacognitive layer is the upper most layer of cognitive abstraction a self aware nervous system can achieve (as far as I can tell). This is basically all the school subjects we learn about and the layer at which we deal with: math, music, visual arts, philosophy, (in our case here) POLITICS ... etc. The meta cognitive provides us with the illusion of us being 1 and all of these subjects being a single dataset. There are many sublevels below that that you can zoom into, the reality is we are not 1 but a collection of many brain subsystems that co-operate and handle the data storage and processing, then below that we probably have a bunch of layers such as our metabolism and related subsystems, then below that we have the various structures like various tissue structures, then below that cells, then below that ... etc. Anyway, if you drill down far enough, you eventually zoom beyond human subsystems and start describing external systems and subsystems that we exist in and are directed by all the way down into quantum foam. JUST outside of the human body is an invisible system that we call evolutionary pressure and what this is more of a pattern of consequence than an actual thing. We simply recognize that self replicating systems are always under pressures of variability and natural selection and that over time this results in interesting patterns that we call evolution. Well, if we look at the above video at that specific layer of resolution, you can see that while we are building tools to help us to survive more easily (the end goal of our tool making is this: a robot slave species that will do all of our manual labour for us) we are ACCIDENTALLY creating feedback loops via all of the systems and technologies around us that are not too dissimilar from natural external evolutionary pressure. For example, by the quirk of human brain REALLY liking abstract puzzles we are inadvertently applying selective pressure on the technologies around us to create more and more technologies with feedback loops that reward the subsystems in our brains that like to solve puzzles in very specific ways. The video that you see linked here is an example of an emergent evolutionary process that has self selected two feedback loops to interact in a way to essentially waste the lives of humans: the human feedback loop that likes puzzles pushes ever better feedback loops that generate new puzzles that waste even more human time after each loop, repeat. These feedback loops exist all around us. Once you notice them, you see them everywhere. This is one of the things that Ted Kazinsky was trying to describe (POORLY) in his manifesto. I thought some of you may find that interesting.