gwern comments on Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 22 February 2010 03:16:03PM 5 points [-]

Most? You think there are more than 2500 species which adult humans would say are cuter than babies? That seems wildly implausible to me; I'd say no more than 300 or so are on par with babies, and fewer exceed it. That isn't too much; surely you could list maybe not >300 species but a measly 150.

How about birds? >10,000 species there; you think there are >5,000 extremely cute birds?

I'd venture that there isn't even a bare majority of cuteness at zoos - institutions would would select for cuteness.

Comment author: taw 22 February 2010 03:46:15PM 0 points [-]

If I had a list of species-weighted random pictures of mammals, I would take the bet that random mammal baby is cuter than human baby.