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

52 Post author: Alicorn 22 February 2010 01:53AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 22 February 2010 09:19:26PM 1 point [-]

There are cute inanimate objects. Tiny ones. I have adorable polyhedral dice, which I acquired by squealing over them so much that their prior owner thought I should just keep them.

Comment author: DanArmak 22 February 2010 09:30:50PM *  2 points [-]

Ah, finally we have a hypothesis on the benefits to humans of the general cuteness instinct!

Comment author: Alicorn 22 February 2010 09:32:30PM 3 points [-]

I have acquired multiple possessions by expressing sincere admiration of them; cuteness was only a factor of said admiration in the one case.