timtyler comments on You're in Newcomb's Box - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 06 February 2011 12:27:39AM *  0 points [-]

You can generally expect evolution to have made you so that you figure out that your purpose in life is to reproduce - or otherwise help increase your inclusive fitness.

Surveys on the topic suggest that not everyone manages this, though. It is common for organisms to die without reproducing. That is especially true for organisms with heavily-infected brains. Notoriously, not much reduces your fertilty as much as a college education does. It is the memetic infections that do it. They don't have your interests at heart. In the future, access to the internet will no doubt be proven to reduce fertility more than colleges ever did. Japan is leading the way in this department.