benelliott comments on Positive Thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 23 March 2011 07:51:15PM *  1 point [-]

Our subconscious may be somewhat optimized for the task of increasing inclusive genetic fitness but I doubt it's optimal, evolution is stupid and gets stuck in local maxima all the time. There are probably points in the space of all possible subconsciouses that would do much better, especially since we are in quite a different environment to the one it was optimized for.