SilasBarta comments on CogSci books - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 20 April 2010 06:26:07PM 0 points [-]

Isn't the obvious answer to his pondering just "Natural selection selects for gene frequency"? And hasn't that been pretty well known for a while? If so, that's pretty bad.

And it doesn't help that everything I've read by him so far comes across as disconnected, unmotivated rambling. :-/ I'm gonna have to agree with you.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 December 2012 04:48:04PM 1 point [-]

Gene frequency is true but not terribly informative, or at least I'm more interested in what sort of organisms you end up with.

Selective breeding is for easily identified traits that people can understand. Natural selection produces something more complex and less obvious.