Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Natural selection is actually technically an optimisation algorithm. Its just a kind of crappy one that only ever finds local maximas because it can't traverse valleys (the thing just dies). So we end up with optical receptors on the wrong side of our retina. Ooof.

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Neanderthals evolved to traverse valleys just fine

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't mean literal valleys.

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

That was just my highly-evolved sense of humour

[–] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

And see where that got them!