Wei_Dai comments on The Sword of Good - Less Wrong

85 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 12:53AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 03 September 2009 07:41:24PM 3 points [-]

What's the evolutionary explanation for power not corrupting?

Comment author: MichaelVassar 05 September 2009 04:28:18AM 5 points [-]

Evolution doesn't do most things. Doing things requires oceans of blood for every little adaptation and humans haven't had power for all that long.
Toddlers need to learn how to hide. How's that for failing to evolve knowledge of the obvious (to a human brain) and absurdly useful.

Comment author: SilasBarta 03 September 2009 07:53:33PM 3 points [-]

Be careful you don't end up explaining two contradictory outcomes equally well, thus proving you have zero knowledge on evolution's effect on power and corruption!