timtyler comments on Existential Risk and Public Relations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 17 August 2010 06:10:18AM *  0 points [-]

Well, I wasn't really claiming that "evolved-intelligence-should-be-myopic".

Evolved-intelligence is what we have, and it can predict the future - at least a little:

Even if the "paranoid fantasies" have consderable substance, would still usually be better (for your genes) to concentrate on producing offspring. Averting disaster is a "tragedy of the commons" situation. Free riding - and letting someone else do that - may well reap the benefits without paying the costs.