Societally influenced for sure. I don’t think eugenics was the intent of the point #[2]​ is trying to make.

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I think humans are pretty predisposed to high time preference behavior, on average. To the extent we have low time preference behavior happening systematically, are features of incentives built by organized societies, and are a little more top down in nature than people want to admit.