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

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Comment author: TobyBartels 07 February 2011 01:06:17AM 2 points [-]

If G causes people to decide not to reproduce, then your ancestors possessing gene G will have not reproduced and you won't exist.

This is false.

Even though G causes people to decide not to reproduce, my ancestors possessing gene G still reproduced, and I do exist.