Wei_Dai comments on The Phobia or the Trauma: The Probem of the Chcken or the Egg in Moral Reasoning. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 15 June 2011 05:29:44AM 0 points [-]

Sometimes the memes convince us to adopt them by being beneficial

What does this mean, when the criteria by which we judge what is "beneficial" can also be considered a product of meme/gene co-evolution?

Comment author: analyticsophy 15 June 2011 07:50:54AM 1 point [-]

It means precisely that it works well with what we already consider to be beneficial thanks to our genetic and memetic predispositions.