AlexSchell comments on Trivers on Self-Deception - Less Wrong
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This doesn't follow. Just because it's not a complex genetic adaptation doesn't mean it's environmental. Liar-detection-ability might just be an additive-effect quantitative trait like height or IQ, with truth-wizardry being the extreme right tail. This is consistent with evolutionary genetics, as Eliezer's psychic unity point only applies for adaptations with multiple interdependent (and therefore non-additive) genetic parts.