orthonormal comments on Evolutionary psychology: evolving three eyed monsters - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Dmytry 16 March 2012 09:28PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 16 March 2012 07:20:02PM 2 points [-]

I disagree with you, but I approve of the habit of taking an idea that won't fit in a comment and expanding it into a post.

That being said, this post isn't fleshed out enough for Main- I think it belongs in Discussion. (Alternately, you could add links and other support for all your significant assertions.)

Comment author: TimS 16 March 2012 07:36:20PM *  2 points [-]

Can you be more specific in your disagreement. Most of what I got from the original post was the suggestion to be very suspicious of humans-evolved-complicated-brain-modules type arguments. I understand if that suspicion isn't the local consensus, but what's wrong with it?

Comment author: orthonormal 17 March 2012 03:58:28PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: Dmytry 16 March 2012 07:29:24PM 1 point [-]

I guess. I did not want to focus attack on specific ideas from evolutionary psychology though. But yes I need to add more citations on how DNA affects the connections between neurons.