Kaj_Sotala comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 08 September 2010 10:08:03PM 10 points [-]

Another example of attribution error: Why would Gimli think that Galadriel is beautiful?

To be fair, the races of Middle-Earth weren't created by evolution, so the criticism isn't fully valid. Ilúvatar gave the dwarves spirits but set them to sleep so that they wouldn't awaken before the elves. It's not unreasonable to assume that as he did so, he also made them admire elven beauty.