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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 February 2010 08:13:56PM 7 points [-]

But if you were walking in a forest and just happened to find a baby. If you didn't know it was a human baby, with various obligations and long-term ties, wouldn't you want to pick it up and snuggle it? Or not?

Unless the baby is likely to be a relative, isn't this actually vastly less adaptive behavior than picking up a cute bunny rabbit that you can eat later in times of famine?

Comment author: wedrifid 22 February 2010 10:29:40PM 0 points [-]

Unless the baby is likely to be a relative, isn't this actually vastly less adaptive behavior than picking up a cute bunny rabbit that you can eat later in times of famine?

Now this is an explanation I can accept as at least remotely plausible without doing mental gymnastics!

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