abramdemski comments on Why Support the Underdog? - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Yvain 05 April 2009 12:01AM

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Comment author: abramdemski 05 April 2009 09:29:12PM 1 point [-]

I agree, Yvain said it first, and it doesn't sound like group selection.

Concerning your group selection comment, that does sound plausible... but being relatively unfamiliar with tribal behavior, I would want to be sure that greedy genes were not spreading between groups before concluding that group selection could actually occur.