Blueberry comments on On the Power of Intelligence and Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Blueberry 24 December 2009 09:27:53PM 3 points [-]

You are looking at it backwards. It's not that humans evolved to follow people with characteristic X, it's that people evolved to exploit human psychology to get people to follow them. There are not necessarily any benefits to being under the spell. Compare: predators evolved to have hunting skills, but that doesn't mean there are benefits for the prey to being hunted.