Kaj_Sotala comments on Why an Intelligence Explosion might be a Low-Priority Global Risk - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 15 November 2011 11:52:39AM *  1 point [-]

I agree with the above, yet given all of the apparent disadvantages of the blind idiot God, evolution was able to come up with altruism, something that works two levels above the individual and one level above society. So far we haven’t been able to show such ingenuity by incorporating successes that are not evident from an individual or even societal position.

I don't understand this paragraph. What does "something that works two levels above the individual and one level above society" mean? Or the follow-up sentence?