Perplexed comments on Group selection update - Less Wrong

38 Post author: PhilGoetz 01 November 2010 04:51PM

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Comment author: Perplexed 14 November 2010 05:19:32AM *  1 point [-]

And he did so in response to EY's anti-group-selection interjection where the focal example had nothing at all to do with sex or speciation.

The focal example was foxes

You must be thinking of a different EY interjection than I was when I wrote that. I meant this EY comment:

ERROR: POSTULATION OF GROUP SELECTION IN MAMMALS DETECTED

which responded to this comment of yours:

What if some of our cognitive biases are evolved adaptations that make human society work better? It would be pretty surprising to me if this weren't the case!

No foxes, no sex, and no species selection in what I was talking about. Edit: Inflamatory and non-responsive comment deleted.