komponisto comments on Problems in evolutionary psychology - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 14 August 2010 01:43:50AM 3 points [-]

I disagree with this comment, but I think the score of -5 is far too harsh. That's spam/nonsense/troll territory. While I would not put this above 0, on account of sentences like

It amazes me how readily laymen are fooled by this nonsense

nor would I put it below -2, since after all it also contains this:

Of course we evolved, and of course our adaptations are a result of natural selection. But that doesn't help us to know about ourselves unless we know in detail what the selective environment was, and what kinds of heritable variation was present in our gene pool.

Comment author: Perplexed 14 August 2010 02:22:02AM 1 point [-]

I disagree with this comment, but I think the score of -5 is far too harsh.

Thx. I'm up to -4 now. :)

... I would not put this above 0, on account of sentences like

It amazes me how readily laymen are fooled by this nonsense

Yeah, I guess I deserve that.