MixedNuts comments on Dominus' Razor - Less Wrong

44 Post author: badger 26 May 2011 01:05AM

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Comment author: MixedNuts 26 May 2011 10:54:40AM 3 points [-]

That's exactly why it's not cleverer than us - we live in an environment with ice cream and condoms. Among the !Kung, the saying might make sense (except that an explicit understanding of evolution didn't exist in the ancestral environment, either). We've been handed a better screwdriver than we could make, but so what? We need a better hammer, and we can make one.