David_Gerard comments on A cynical explanation for why rationalists worry about FAI - Less Wrong
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Humans are adaptation-executers, not fitness maximisers - and evolved in tribes of not more than 100 or so. And they are exquisitely sensitive to status. As such, they will happily work way too hard to increase their status ranking in a small group, whether it makes sense from the outside view or not. (This may or may not follow failing to increase their status ranking in more mainstream groups.)