# Technology Delivers Fake Fitness Better Than Real Fitness by Geoffrey Miller > “Technology is fairly good at controlling external reality to promote our real biological fitness, but it's even better at delivering fake fitness — subjective cues of survival and reproduction, without the real-world effects.” > **— Geoffrey Miller**, *2006, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?”* ## Sources and Context - **Direct Edge response and surrounding essay:** [Runaway consumerism explains the Fermi Paradox](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11475) — the official response page preserves this exact, continuous passage and its surrounding argument. - **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2006 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2006 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first record for the response object and all canonical reminder links derived from it. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism]] - **Article:** [[articles/Cyber-Physical Lessons from Imperial Beekeeping|Cyber-Physical Beekeeping]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Nolan's Odyssey]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Infrastructure Capture|Infrastructure Capture]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Infrastructure Capture|Infrastructure Capture]] - [[wiki/Regulatory Capture|Regulatory Capture]] - [[wiki/Category Capture|Category Capture]] - [[wiki/Scale of Capture|Scale of Capture]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Technology is fairly good at controlling external reality to promote our real biological fitness, but it's even better at delivering fake fitness — subjective cues of survival and reproduction, without the real-world effects.” — Geoffrey Miller, 2006, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-geoffrey-miller-fake-fitness-cues ```