timtyler comments on If it looks like utility maximizer and quacks like utility maximizer... - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 12 June 2009 05:18:01AM 0 points [-]

That is probably not what it means. There are various definitions of selection - e.g. see Hull 1988 for one example:

Selection: 'a process in which the differential extinction and proliferation of interaction causes the differential perpetuation of the replicators that produced them'.