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Comment author: taelor 20 September 2012 04:41:23PM 0 points [-]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Hanson's whole point that everyone is naturally hypocritical, and has been made that way via millions of years of evolution optimized to handle social politics in small forager bands? Wouldn't a "non-[hypocritical] approach to life" be something that Hanson's theory would predict wouldn't exist?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 20 September 2012 09:52:13PM 1 point [-]

In that case what cluster in thing-space does the word "hypocrite" cut out?