Dmytry comments on Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 March 2012 09:31:31PM 0 points [-]

I imagine that if biological evolution would be allowed to continue for a million years or two we would have more intelligent human with precisely 1 strong urge - to reproduce

This would seem true if the only force involved in evolution were natural selection. But selection selection seems to have played a considerable role in human evolution. A horizon limited to reproduction doesn't seem very sexy to my intuitions.

Comment author: Dmytry 28 March 2012 12:38:25AM 0 points [-]

Well, in principle a: one can fake whatever signals it takes and b: the mate selection goes both ways, the effective reproducer should more often mate with another effective reproducer.