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

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Comment author: Alicorn 22 February 2010 07:39:20PM 4 points [-]

It's in cuckoo interests to be attractive to host birds; it's not obviously serving non-domesticated animals to be cute. It hasn't historically stopped us from eating them at anywhere near the rates that would put that kind of pressure on.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 February 2010 08:15:27PM 2 points [-]

How does the same cuckoo manage to be attractive to so many host birds?