timtyler comments on By Which It May Be Judged - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 December 2012 04:26AM

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Comment author: timtyler 01 January 2013 01:21:16PM *  0 points [-]

They can't be equivalent if group selection doesn't exist - since kin selection is well established orthodoxy.

Both the kin selection and group selection concepts evolved after being invented. This is normal for scientific concepts: our ideas about gravity and light evolved in a similar manner.