“Amusing Ourselves to Death? § Waller Et Al 1995_29ya, ‘Occupational and Leisure Time Interests, and Personality’”, Gwern2018-05-12 (sociology of tech, transhumanism)⁠:

A suggested x-risk/Great Filter is the possibility of advanced entertainment technology leading to wireheading/mass sterility/population collapse and extinction. As media consumption patterns are highly heritable, any such effect would trigger rapid human adaptation, implying extinction is almost impossible unless immediate collapse or exponentially accelerating addictiveness.

Extracting domain interests from Waller et al 1995’s reported summary statistics & test-retest reliabilities, I compute pooled weighted correlations, corrected for measurement error based on the test-retest reliabilities, for use in the table of heritabilities.

• Heritability of Leisure-Time Activities & Media Consumption
  • MaTCH
  • General Literature
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• Appendix
  • Literature Review
  • 1976_48ya: A Study of 850 Sets of Twins’, Gwern2018” id=”toc-loehlin-nichols-1976-a-study-of-850-sets-of-twins”>Loehlin & Nichols 1976_48ya: A Study of 850 Sets of Twins
  • 1995_29ya, ‘Occupational and Leisure Time Interests, and Personality’’, Gwern2018” id=”toc-waller-et-al-1995-occupational-and-leisure-time-interests-and-personality”>Waller Et Al 1995_29ya, “Occupational and Leisure Time Interests, and Personality”