Humans have a more intense biological trigger to fear change and death than to appreciate improvements, which compounds into fear of anything new, making cultural pessimism not purely cultural but rooted in deep biological incentives
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Reid HoffmannEvidence Quote
“one of the things we find as a biological species is we have a much more intense trigger to change being negative because the fear of death is more important than the kind of the improvements and so that compounds into oh that's new that's fearful”
Created: 8/13/2026, 9:55:39 AM
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