Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Why is our sex drive too strong? - Less Wrong

3 Post author: PhilGoetz 08 December 2010 05:02PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 December 2010 05:37:49AM 0 points [-]

If we assume that culture is adaptive

Well, sure, but couldn't you assume something more ridiculous if you tried hard enough?

Comment author: wedrifid 23 December 2011 08:21:08AM 2 points [-]

I'm actually getting concerned here. It looks like PhilGoetz's constant group selection advocacy is actually working. The very title is a question that assumes group selection in favor of a phenonemon that doesn't even exist in order for the question to even make sense. And he has not only been taken seriously but received upvotes while ridicule of the assumptions gets downvotes.